漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
身: somebody, person
Also: one's station in life
N3 (our estimate)7 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
シンshin · on'yomi · in compounds
- 身体しんたいbody
- 身長しんちょうheight (of body)
- 身辺しんぺんone's affairs
- 全身ぜんしんthe whole body
- 独身どくしんunmarried [n.]
- 出身しゅっしんbirth place, graduate [n.]
- 自身じしんone's self [n.]
- 変身するへんしんするtransform, metamorphose [v.i.]
みmi · kun'yomi · on its own
- 身みbody, meaty part
- 身近なみぢかなfamiliar
- 中身なかみcontents
- 刺身さしみsliced raw fish
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
From a pictograph of a pregnant woman. Unrelated to 射.
Source: Wiktionary, 身 (rev. 92201888), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for a person's physical "body" or their respected social "status" and "self" within the larger community.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shēn
Same form: 身 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 身 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 身 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shēn 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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