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腰缠万贯

yāo chán wàn guàn

4-character word Traditional 腰纏萬貫

What 腰缠万贯 means

1. lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money
2. extremely wealthy
3. loaded

The characters in 腰缠万贯

• 腰yāothe waist and lower back; (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food)…
• 缠chánto wind around; to wrap round; to coil
• 万wànten thousand; a great number
• 贯guànto pierce through; to pass through; to be stringed together

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