the waist and lower back, (bound form) kidney of an animal (as food), the waist of trousers or a skirt, (metonym) money pouch; pocket, (bound form) the middle section of an upright object (mountain, bottle etc)
Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning, north Hebei, the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕[Qian2 Yan1] (337–370), Later Yan 後燕|后燕[Hou4 Yan1] (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕[Nan2 Yan1] (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕[Bei3 Yan1] (409–436), surname Yan