身 shēn
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shēn
noun
human body; torso
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 1; Unihan '身') -
shēn
noun
Kangxi radical 158
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Body (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '身' n 9; Unihan '身') -
shēn
measure word
measure word for clothes
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 8) -
shēn
noun
self
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: 身 may function as a reflexive pronoun in Literary Chinese, in the sense of 自己 (Guoyu '身' n 4; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 83). -
shēn
noun
life
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense 身 is the same as 生命 or 性命 (Guoyu '身' n 3) -
shēn
noun
an object
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 2) -
shēn
noun
a lifetime
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In this sense 身 is the same as 辈子 -
shēn
adverb
personally
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In this sense in Literary Chinese 身 is the same as 亲身 or 亲自 in modern Chinese (Guoyu '身' adv; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 137). For example, 彼身織屨,妻辟纑,以易之也。'He himself weaves sandals of hemp, and his wife twists and dresses threads of hemp to sell or exchange them.' (Mengzi: 6.10/35/19, translation by Legge) -
shēn
noun
moral character
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 品格 (Guoyu '身' n 5) -
shēn
noun
status; identity; position
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 身分 or 地位 (Guoyu '身' n 6) -
shēn
noun
pregnancy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 有身 (Guoyu '身' n 7) -
juān
proper noun
India
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Abbreviation for 身毒 (Guoyu '身' juān)
Contained in
- 身体障害(身體障害) cripple
- 毛出在羊身上 wool comes from the sheep's back; One gets the benefit, but the price has been paid.
- 身强力壮(身強力壯) strong and vigorous; sturdy; robust
- 八疸身面黄(八疸身面黃) eight types of jaundice with yellowing of body and face (TCM)
- 身在曹营心在汉(身在曹營心在漢) live in Cao camp but have the heart in Han camp; to be somewhere while longing to be somewhere else
- 通国身(通國身) understanding the state as body
- 挺身 to straighten one's back
- 身陷 to be trapped; to be imprisoned
- 浑身上下(渾身上下) all over; from head to toe
- 身光 aureole
- 转身(轉身) to turn round; to face about ; to remarry ; to leave
- 身临其境(身臨其境) to experience it for oneself; to actually *be* there (as opposed to reading about it etc)
- 失身 to lose one's virginity; to lose one's chastity
- 许身(許身) one's own expectations ; to be permitted to marry
- 热身(熱身) to warm up (sports); to prepare; to get in condition
- 身陷牢狱(身陷牢獄) to go to prison; to be imprisoned
- 出身 to come from to be born of ; family background; class origin ; first appointment as an official ; to devote oneself to ; the path to a career as an official ; for a young woman to get married
- 死无葬身之地(死無葬身之地) to die without a burial site; to die a pauper; a tragic end
- 献身(獻身) to devote oneself to
- 摇身(搖身) to shake one's body ; to change shape in a single shake; to take on a new lease of life
- 身体部分(身體部分) body part
- 健身房 gym; gymnasium
- 身心 body and mind
- 置身事外 to stay aloof from a matter
- 终身监禁(終身監禁) life sentence
- 身在福中不知福 to live in plenty without appreciating it; not to know when one is well off
- 身无长物(身無長物) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a poor or frugal life
- 身体检查(身體檢查) physical checkup
- 身心俱疲 physically and emotionally exhausted
- 设身处地(設身處地) to put oneself in somebody else's position
- 身边(身邊) at one's side
- 上半身 upper body
- 塑身 body sculpting
- 终身(終身) lifelong ; to pass a lifetime
- 身材 stature; build
- 养虎伤身(養虎傷身) Rear a tiger and court disaster.; if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later
- 上身 upper body
- 孤身 alone; lonely
- 切身 personal
- 在身 to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit)
- 自身难保(自身難保) powerless to defend oneself; helpless
- 赤身 naked
- 满身(滿身) to be covered all over
- 身先朝露 body will go with the morning dew; ephemeral and precarious nature of human existence
- 失身分 demeaning
- 身孕 pregnancy; pregnant
- 舍身(捨身) to give one's life
- 养身(養身) to take good care of one's body
- 贴身卫队(貼身衛隊) personal bodyguard
- 独身(獨身) unmarried; single
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 55
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 50
- 卷27 志第22 百官中 Volume 27 Treatises 22: Government Offices 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 41
- 《大學章句》 Commentary on Great Learning Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 36
- 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 36
- 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 31
- 卷五十三 Scroll 53 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 30
- 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 30
- 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 29
- 卷五十九 Scroll 59 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 27
Collocations
- 身死 (身死) 鄉為身死而不受 — Mencius 孟子, 告子上 Gaozi I — count: 6
- 去身 (去身) 去身之偏 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
- 君身 (君身) 不及君身 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 4
- 危身 (危身) 與其危身以速罪也 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 閔公 Lord Min — count: 3
- 用身 (用身) 今士之用身 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 3
- 杀身 (殺身) 有殺身以成仁 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 15. 《衛靈公》 Wei Ling Gong — count: 3
- 信身 (信身) 唯信身而從事 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同下 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior III — count: 2
- 王身 (王身) 以祈王身 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 2
- 成身 (成身) 敢問何謂成身 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《哀公問》 Questions of Duke Ai — count: 2
- 身修 (身修) 心正而後身修 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《大學》 The Great Learning — count: 2