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身
Mandarin · pinyin shēn
Meanings
- 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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- 身
- shēn · body; trunk, hull; Kangxi radical 158
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Mandarin tones
1 · shen1
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 14 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gyun1 · jyun4 · kin4 · san1
Cantonese word readings for 身. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- (anatomy) body
- (figurative) body; main part
- oneself
- in person; personally
- I; me
- life; one's (entire) life
- social status
- moral character
- Classifier for suits of clothes.
- (euphemistic) pregnancy
- (literary or Southern Min, Puxian Min) Classifier for statues, dolls, puppets.
- (Southern Min) Classifier for silkworms.
- (Cantonese, idiomatic) Classifier for beatings.
character · Etymology 2
- only used in 身毒 (Juāndú)
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