yāo chán wàn guàn

Traditional: 腰纏萬貫

腰缠万贯 (yāo chán wàn guàn) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money; extremely wealthy; loaded”.

Meanings

  1. 1lit. ten thousand strings of cash in money belt (idiom); carrying lots of money
  2. 2extremely wealthy
  3. 3loaded

Characters in 腰缠万贯

腰yāo · the waist and lower back缠chán · to wind around万mò · used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]贯guàn · to pierce through

Related words

万used in 万俟[Mo4 qi2]万ten thousand万surname Wan千万ten million万一just in case百万million万岁Long live (the king, the revolution etc)!缠to wind around腰the waist and lower back以防万一to guard against the unexpected (idiom); just in case成千上万lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom)纠缠to be in a tangle

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