半山腰

bànshānyāo

noun #50,880

Meanings

HSK 3

我们才爬到半山腰就累了。

Wǒmen cái pádào bànshānyāo jiù lèi le.

We were worn out when we were only halfway up the mountain.

HSK 7-9

半山腰上有一个小茶馆，很多人在那里歇脚。

Bànshānyāo shàng yǒu yí ge xiǎo cháguǎn, hěnduō rén zài nàli xiējiǎo.

Halfway up there is a little teahouse where many people stop for a rest.

memory

Chinese draws a mountain as a body: 山脚 is its foot, 山腰 its waist and 山顶 its top. 半山腰, 'half the mountain's waist', is the everyday spoken form of 山腰.

半 bàn

山 shān

腰 yāo