脊梁
jǐ liáng
Pinyin

Definition

脊梁
 - 
jǐ liáng
  1. backbone
  2. spine
  3. Taiwan pr. [jǐ liang]
脊梁
 - 
jǐ liang
  1. (coll.) back (of a human or other vertebrate)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

梁
Liáng
  1. 1 Liang Dynasty (502-557)
  2. 2 Later Liang Dynasty (907-923)
  3. 3 surname Liang
梁静茹
Liáng Jìng rú
  1. 1 Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer
  2. 2 also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong
桥梁
qiáo liáng
  1. 1 bridge (lit. and fig.)
吕梁
Lu:3 liáng
  1. 1 Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
大梁
Dà liáng
  1. 1 capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states
  2. 2 CL:根[gēn]
屋脊
wū jǐ
  1. 1 roof ridge
山脊
shān jǐ
  1. 1 mountain ridge
后梁
Hòu Liáng
  1. 1 Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923)
梁启超
Liáng Qǐ chāo
  1. 1 Liang Qichao (1873-1929), influential journalist and a leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
梁山
Liáng shān
  1. 1 Liangshan city and County in Jining 濟寧|济宁[Jǐ níng], Shandong
梁振英
Liáng Zhèn yīng
  1. 1 Leung Chun-ying (1954-), 3rd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
梁漱溟
Liáng Shù míng
  1. 1 Liang Shuming (1893-1988), modern philosopher and teacher in the neo-Confucian tradition
栋梁
dòng liáng
  1. 1 ridgepole
  2. 2 ridgepole and beams
  3. 3 person able to bear heavy responsibility
  4. 4 mainstay (of organization)
  5. 5 pillar (of state)
横梁
héng liáng
  1. 1 beam
背脊
bèi jǐ
  1. 1 the back of the human body
脊柱
jǐ zhù
  1. 1 spinal column
  2. 2 columna vertebralis
脊梁
jǐ liáng
  1. 1 backbone
  2. 2 spine
  3. 3 Taiwan pr. [jǐ liang]
脊梁骨
jǐ liang gǔ
  1. 1 backbone
脊椎
jǐ zhuī
  1. 1 vertebra
  2. 2 backbone
脊背
jǐ bèi
  1. 1 back (of a human or other vertebrate)

Idioms (8)

上梁不正下梁歪
shàng liáng bù zhèng xià liáng wāi
  1. 1 lit. If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked (idiom); fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices
偷梁换柱
tōu liáng huàn zhù
  1. 1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
  2. 2 to replace the original with a fake
  3. 3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
悬梁刺股
xuán liáng cì gǔ
  1. 1 to study assiduously and tirelessly (idiom)
  2. 2 see also 頭懸梁，錐刺股|头悬梁，锥刺股[tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ]
绕梁三日
rào liáng sān rì
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
蹿房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
头悬梁，锥刺股
tóu xuán liáng , zhuī cì gǔ
  1. 1 lit. with his head attached to a beam and stabbing his thigh with an awl (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to study assiduously and tirelessly
余音绕梁
yú yīn rào liáng
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
余响绕梁
yú xiǎng rào liáng
  1. 1 reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)

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