身

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/身

Glyph origin

 * from a pictograph of a pregnant woman.

Etymology 1
STEDT relates it to, but recent 🇨🇬 reconstructions would not support this etymology.

Because 身 is used as a phonetic for in excavated texts,  reconstruct the initial as nasal. This would allow for a comparison to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, which are from 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1)  body
 * 2)  body; main part
 * 3) pregnancy
 * 4) oneself
 * 5) in person; personally
 * 6) I; me
 * 7) life; one's (entire) life
 * 8) social status
 * 9) moral character
 * 1) moral character

Kanji

 * 1) body
 * 2) identity
 * 1) identity

Compounds

 * : body
 * : stature, one's height
 * : one's person
 * : one's fortune, one's property
 * : a stand-in, a substitute
 * : agile, nimble, light on one's feet
 * : one's appearance
 * : close by, near; familiar
 * : identity
 * : social standing
 * : social position
 * : relative
 * : suicide
 * : disabled person
 * : one's circumstances, one's place in life, one's lot or fortune
 * : selfishness
 * : one's social position
 * : one's accoutrements, the things about a person, one's personal belongings
 * : whole body
 * : mind and body
 * : self-immolation
 * : transformation
 * : oneself
 * : living alone; a bachelor, a single person
 * : alone, one person
 * : past life
 * : self-protection
 * : devotion
 * : success in life
 * : humble position
 * : a narrow body
 * : contents, the insides of something
 * : yolk
 * : sashimi
 * : one's native place, where someone is from
 * : to wear, to put on the body
 * : the own person, oneself
 * : the entire body

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with.

Standalone form of mu below. See also the etymology of.

Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a body; :
 * 2) the main part of something
 * 3) the blade of a sword
 * 4) meat, flesh
 * 5) wood
 * 6) oneself
 * 7) one's position, one's social standing, one's circumstances

Derived terms

 * : one's identity, one's social standing
 * : contents, the insides of something
 * : sashimi
 * : red flesh (of fish); lean meat
 * : yolk
 * : yolk

Etymology 2
From. Bound form of mi above, only found in compounds.

Noun

 * 1)  a body

Derived terms

 * , : a hostage
 * ,, : a (living) body; a (dead) body, a corpse; a rotten tree trunk
 * , : the true nature of a person or thing

Etymology 3
From. Compound of. The derivation of the kuro element is uncertain, but it might be an alteration or ancient form of.

Noun

 * 1) a living body
 * 2) * 720, (Nihon Shoki, “Chronicles of Japan”), Volume 7, in the section on 景行天皇 (Keikō-tennō, Emperor Keikō):
 * 身體長大
 * 1) a dead body, a corpse
 * 2) * 14th century, 太平記 (Taiheiki):
 * 3) a rotten tree trunk
 * 1) a rotten tree trunk
 * 1) a rotten tree trunk

Derived terms

 * , : one's entire body

Etymology 4
From.

Noun

 * 1) a body

Usage notes
Seldom used on its own. In isolation, the reading mi is much more common.

Derived terms

 * : a body, one's body

Etymology
From.