Chinese character 胢

It names a bone in the hip or waist area.

Chinese dictionaries gloss 胢 as an old equivalent of 髂. That character names the waist bone or ilium—the broad bone at either side of the pelvis.

For the related forms, the trail begins in 玉篇, an early Chinese character dictionary, and continues through 韻書, books that group characters by rhyme, and later dictionaries. Older notes connect the family with 骼 in discussions of animal bones; later entries for 髂 focus on the human waist bone.

How do I type 胢 if pinyin misses it?

Try Mandarin pinyin, then use character lookup.

Enter qià in a Mandarin pinyin input method and check the candidates. If it does not return 胢, search the character-variant list for 胢 or its documented relatives 髂 and 䯊; confirm the exact form you need.