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腰斩

yāo zhǎn

2-character word Traditional 腰斬

What 腰斩 means

1. to chop sb in half at the waist (capital punishment)
2. to cut sth in half
3. to reduce sth by a dramatic margin
4. to terminate
5. to cut short

The characters in 腰斩

• 腰yāothe waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)…
• 斩zhǎnto behead (as form of capital punishment); to chop

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