"Legs" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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双腿 shuāng tuǐ legs / both legs / two legs
站起 zhàn qǐ to get up on hind legs (esp. of horse) / to stand / to spring up
双脚 shuāng jiǎo two legs / both feet
走动 zǒu dòng to walk around / to move about / to stretch one's legs / to go for a walk / to be mobile (e.g. after an illness) / to visit one another / to pay a visit (go to the toilet)
鼎立 dǐng lì lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod / tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
腿脚 tuǐ jiǎo legs and feet / ability to walk / strides
灰溜溜 huī liū liū dull gray / gloomy / dejected / crestfallen / with one's tail between one's legs
画蛇添足 huà shé tiān zú lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom) / fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous / to overdo it
后肢 hòu zhī hind legs
鼎足 dǐng zú lit. the three legs of a tripod / fig. three competing rivals
四体 sì tǐ one's four limbs / two arms and two legs
五刑 wǔ xíng imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4] / Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]
老虎凳 lǎo hǔ dèng tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse)
爵 jué ancient bronze wine holder with 3 legs and loop handle / nobility
棒 bàng stick / club / cudgel / smart / capable / strong / wonderful / classifier for legs of a relay race
鼎 dǐng ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs / pot (dialect) / to enter upon a period of (classical) / Kangxi radical 206 / one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes
鬲 lì ancient ceramic three-legged vessel used for cooking with cord markings on the outside and hollow legs
胑 zhī wings of birds / legs of animals
驈 yù black horse with white legs
四脚朝天 sì jiǎo cháo tiān four legs facing the sky (idiom) / flat on one's back
胯下之辱 kuà xià zhī rǔ lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. utter humiliation
鬷 zōng kettle on legs
倍足类 bèi zú lèi Diplopoda (arthropod class with a pair of legs on each segment, including centipedes and millipedes)
再衰三竭 zài shuāi sān jié weakening and close to exhaustion (idiom) / in terminal decline / on one's last legs
外八字腿 wài bā zì tuǐ bow legs / bandy legs
夹起尾巴 jiā qǐ wěi ba to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation
尥蹶子 liào juě zi (of mules, horses etc) to kick backward / to kick with the hind legs / fig. to flare up in anger / to display defiance
无功而返 wú gōng ér fǎn to return without any achievement (idiom) / to go home with one's tail between one's legs
爪儿 zhuǎ r paws (of small animal) / same as 爪子 / legs of furniture or apparatus / stupid person
蛇足 shé zú lit. legs on a snake / sth superfluous
走動 zǒu dòng to walk around / to move about / to stretch one's legs / to go for a walk / to be mobile (e.g. after an illness) / to visit one another / to pay a visit (go to the toilet)
跂坐 qì zuò to sit with legs dangling
阿鲁巴 A1 lǔ bā (Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
O型腿 O xíng tuǐ bow legs / bow-leggedness
夹尾巴 jiā wěi ba to have one's tail between one's legs
柦 dàn a kind of wooden desk without legs
柴鸡 chái jī a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
丝足 sī zú feet and legs in silk stockings (especially in the massage context)
腿玩年 tuǐ wán nián (slang) stunning legs / sexy legs
管住嘴迈开腿 guǎn zhù zuǐ mài kāi tuǐ lit. shut your mouth, move your legs (motto for losing weight)
筷子腿 kuài zi tuǐ (coll.) skinny legs
蹬腿 dēng tuǐ to kick one's legs / leg press (exercise) / (coll.) to kick the bucket
盉 hé vessel similar to a kettle, but with three or four legs, used in ancient times for warming wine
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