身
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body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
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- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 身 itself
- Structure
- Single component 独体
- Traditional
- 身
- Common rank
- #171
- Unicode
- U+8EAB
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Formation & memory
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How 身 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A pregnant woman
How to remember it
somebody · Heisig RSH #1026
nose
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 身
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 身上 | on the body; at hand; among | |
| 身体 | the body; one's health | |
| 身高马大 | tall; huge | |
| 身无分文 | (idiom) penniless; completely broke | |
| 身无长物 | (idiom) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a frugal life | |
| 身体力行 | to practice what one preaches (idiom) | |
| 身子 | body; pregnancy; health | |
| 人身 | person; personal; human body | |
| 一身 | whole body; from head to toe; single person; a suit of clothes | |
| 重身子 | pregnant; pregnant woman | |
| 身心 | body and mind; mental and physical | |
| 自身 | itself; oneself; one's own | |
| 身外之物 | mere worldly possessions | |
| 身家 | oneself and one's family; family background; pedigree; one's property; one's total assets | |
| 人身安全 | personal safety | |
| 机身 | body of a vehicle or machine; fuselage of a plane | |
| 动身 | to go on a journey; to leave | |
| 化身 | incarnation; reincarnation; embodiment (of abstract idea); personification | |
| 上身 | upper part of the body; to put on (clothes on the upper body); (of a spirit, disease, misf… | |
| 安身 | to make one's home; to take shelter |