shēn

  1. shēn noun human body; torso
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 1; Unihan '身')
  2. 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')
  3. shēn measure word measure word for clothes
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
    Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 8)
  4. 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).
  5. 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)
  6. shēn noun an object
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '身' n 2)
  7. shēn noun a lifetime
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In this sense 身 is the same as 辈子
  8. 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)
  9. shēn noun moral character
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 品格 (Guoyu '身' n 5)
  10. 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)
  11. shēn noun pregnancy
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 有身 (Guoyu '身' n 7)
  12. juān proper noun India
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: Abbreviation for 身毒 (Guoyu '身' juān)

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