體

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

体

🇨🇳

body

HSK 10

Human →Body

tǐ

タイ、テイ

からだ、かたち

체

Phonosemantic compound. 骨 represents the meaning and 豊 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (體)

骨 skeleton+ 豊 plentiful =

體 body

骨 Meaning component

gǔ skeleton

bone

豊 Phonetic component

lǐ plentiful

abundant, lush, bountiful, plenty

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Simplified (体)

亻 person (side)+ 本 book =

体 body

亻 Meaning component

rén person (side)

亻 is a component form of 人.

本 Meaning component

běn book

root, origin, source

Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

体

Regular

Modern

Chinese

体 / 體 [tǐ]

body; form; style; system; substance; to experience; aspect (linguistics)

Japanese

体、身体、躯 (rare) 、躰 (rare) からだ同音

noun

body (からだ is a gikun reading of 身体)
torso; trunk
build; physique; frame; figure
health; constitution

体たい同音

noun

body; physique; posture
shape; form; style
substance; identity; reality
mathematics field
typeface; type

counter

counter for humanoid forms (e.g. dolls, statues, corpses, etc.)

体、態てい同音

noun appearance; air; condition; state; form

Korean

체 [體]

Affix

-che; A suffix used to mean a body.; -che; A suffix used to mean "a substance of such a state or shape."; -che; A suffix used to mean "an organization of a system."; -che; A suffix used to mean "a way or formality in a handwriting."; -che; A suffix used to mean "a way or format of expressing writing."

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (4)

カメレオンは周りの色に合わせて体色を変えることができる。

The chameleon can take on the colors of its background.

あのころ、もっと一生懸命体を鍛えていたら、彼は今頃はもっと健康であろうに。

If he had trained himself harder at that time, he would be healthier now.

彼は今までに９体の人型ロボットを製造していたが、その全てはデモンストレーションモデルだった。

Up to now he had made nine humanoid robots but they were all demonstration models.

奥さんのがみがみ小言にフレッドさんは大弱りの体であった。

Fred was very troubled by his wife's nagging.