苗 条 miáo tiao (of a woman) slim / slender / graceful 修 长 xiū cháng slender / lanky / tall and thin 窈 窕 yǎo tiǎo (literary) (of a woman) graceful and refined / comely / (esp.) slender / slim / (literary) (of a bower, a mountain stream or a boudoir within a palace etc) secluded 细 长 xì cháng slender 纤 纤 xiān xiān slim / slender 高 挑 gāo tiǎo raised high / (of a person) slender / tall and thin (Taiwan pr. [gao1tiao1]) 婧 (literary) (of a woman) slender / delicate / (literary) (of a woman) talented 孅 cunning / slender 箧 箧 qiè qiè long and thin / slender 细 挑 xì tiāo slender 纤 瘦 xiān shòu slender / slim as a thread 精 瘦 jīng shòu (coll.) lean (figure, meat etc) / slender 削 瘦 xuē shòu thin / lean / slender / skinny / (of cheeks) hollow 高 䠷 gāo tiǎo (of a person) slender / tall and thin 马 尾 mǎ wěi ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants) 纤 体 xiān tǐ to get a slender figure / slimming 纤 腰 xiān yāo slender waistline 细 腰 xì yāo slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin 亭 亭 玉 立 tíng tíng yù lì slender and elegant (of a woman) 银 鱼 yín yú oriental whitebait / slender silvery-white fish e.g. Galaxias maculatus and Salangichthys microdon 根 root / basis / classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings / CL:條|条[tiao2] / radical (chemistry) 水 蛇 腰 shuǐ shé yāo slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose 细 thin or slender / finely particulate / thin and soft / fine / delicate / trifling / (of a sound) quiet / frugal 扦 short slender pointed piece of metal, bamboo etc / skewer / prod used to extract samples from sacks of grain etc / (dialect) to stick in / to bolt (a door) / to arrange (flowers in a vase) / to graft (tree) / to pedicure / to peel (an apple etc) 鳓 Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad 籯 slender basket for chopsticks 细 长 金 枪 鱼 slender tuna 曹 白 鱼 cáo bái yú Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad 中 卷 zhōng juǎn adult squid, typically more than 15 cm long with a slender body and fins in the shape of a big rhombus (Tw) 亭 亭 玉 立 tíng tíng - yù lì (idiom) (of a woman) slender and elegant / (idiom) (of a plant) tall and straight 
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