身
Meanings
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- 1.body
- 2.life
- 3.oneself
- 4.personally
- 5.one's morality and conduct
- 6.the main part of a structure or body
- 7.pregnant
- 8.classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- 9.Kangxi radical 158
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Wiktionary
- 1.body
- 2.body; main part
- 3.oneself
- 4.in person; personally
- 5.I; me
- 6.life; one's (entire) life
- 7.social status
- 8.moral character
- 9.Classifier for suits of clothes.
- 10.pregnancy
- 11.Classifier for statues, dolls, puppets.
- 12.Classifier for silkworms.
- 13.Classifier for beatings.
- 14.only used in 身毒 (Juāndú)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): from a pictograph of a pregnant woman. See also the reversed version 㐆. Unrelated to 射. STEDT relates it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sja-n ~ *sin (“flesh; animal; body”), but recent Old Chinese reconstructions would not support this etymology. Because 身 is used as a phonetic for 仁 (OC *niŋ) in excavated texts, Baxter and Sagart (2012, 2014) reconstruct the initial as nasal. This would allow for a comparison to Tibetan སྙིང (snying, “heart”), Japhug tɯsni (“heart”) (Baxter and Sagart, 2012; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019), which are from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-niŋ (“heart; mind; brain”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我單身。
I'm unmarried.
我單身。
I'm single.
我單身。
I am a bachelor.
我單身。
I'm not married.
我單身。
I'm a bachelor.
我單身。
I am not married.
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