体

Alternative forms
In the historical Chinese dictionary, this character is written in the form of.

Related characters

 * (Orthodox of 体)

Glyph origin
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Glyph origin
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Definitions

 * 1)  name of prison

Usage notes
This character was originally an alternative form of as used in Chinese. This usage now appears to be obsolete, at least in Japanese, where and  are distinct characters and are not interchangeable. See the 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 entries for further details.

Etymology 1
From.

Counter

 * 1) counter for humanoid objects

Noun

 * 1) the body
 * 2)  the torso excluding the limbs: the trunk, abdomen
 * 3) a substance, matter
 * 4) a form, shape
 * 5)  field commutative ring with invertible nonzero elements

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) an outward appearance, look, aspect

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * らた ( - [1])

Noun

 * 1) body

Han character

 * 1) body

Han character

 * 1)  to see