漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
体: body, substance
Also: object, reality, counter for images
JLPT N47 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
亻 carries the meaning · 本 is drawn in
7 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
タイtai · on'yomi · in compounds
- 体重たいじゅうbody weight
- 体力たいりょくphysical strength
- 大体だいたいin general, mostly
- 全体ぜんたいentirety, whole
- 団体だんたいgroup, team, organization
- 具体的なぐたいてきなconcrete
- 体験するたいけんするexperience
からだkarada · kun'yomi · on its own
- 体からだbody
- 体中からだじゅうthroughout the body
Also read テイ, かたち, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)骨 bone (meaning) + 豊 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 體 (rev. 92202216), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“A person (亻) + foundation/origin (本) = the physical body is the foundation and origin of every living person.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
本
Also built on book (本)
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side体 body · 本
vs休 rest · 木In ChineseSimplified, as in Japanese · traditional 體 · tǐ
Japan uses the same simplified form as mainland China, 体. Taiwan and Hong Kong write 體.
- Simplified
- 体 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 體 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin tǐ most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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