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)

Liáng
  1. 1 Liang Dynasty (502-557)
  2. 2 Later Liang Dynasty (907-923)
  3. 3 surname Liang
Liáng Jìng rú
  1. 1 Fish Leong (1978-), Malaysian pop singer
  2. 2 also Leong Chui Peng or Jasmine Leong
qiáo liáng
  1. 1 bridge (lit. and fig.)
Lǚ liáng
  1. 1 Lüliang prefecture-level city in Shanxi 山西
Dà liáng
  1. 1 capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states
  2. 2 classifier: 根 gēn

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 頭懸梁,錐刺股|头悬梁,锥刺股[tóu xuán liáng
  3. 3 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)