身 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)

Contained in

• 藏身处(藏身處) hiding place; hideout; shelter
• 可身 to fit well (clothes)
• 反身代词(反身代詞) reflexive pronoun
• 身为(身為) in the capacity of; as
• 遍身 over the whole body
• 分身 to do multiple things at once; to be distracted; to divide one's body into two
• 躬身 to bow
• 身光 aureole
• 满身(滿身) to be covered all over
• 孤身只影(孤身隻影) a lonely body with only a shadow for company; to be all alone
• 切身 personal
• 终身监禁(終身監禁) life sentence
• 身世 life experience; one's lot
• 身心交瘁 worn out in body and soul
• 身陷牢狱(身陷牢獄) to go to prison; to be imprisoned
• 身心科 psychiatry
• 纵身(縱身) to leap; to spring; to throw oneself ; to leap; to spring; to throw oneself ; to leap; to spring; to throw oneself
• 身份证明(身份證明) proof of identity; ID card
• 己身 oneself
• 澡身浴德 to bathe the body and cleanse virtue; to improve oneself by meditation
• 机身(機身) body of a vehicle or machine; fuselage of a plane
• 紧身(緊身) skintight
• 身份认同政治(身份認同政治) identity politics
• 身强力壮(身強力壯) strong and vigorous; sturdy; robust
• 身无分文(身無分文) penniless
• 身教 to teach by example
• 私定终身(私定終身) to make a pledge to be married, without parents' approval
• 人在江湖，身不由己 you can't always do as you like; one has to compromise in this world
• 身上 on the body; at hand; among
• 情定终身(情定終身) to pledge eternal love; to exchange marriage vows
• 身心俱疲 physically and emotionally exhausted
• 身法 pose or motion of one's body in martial arts
• 健身房 gym; gymnasium
• 庇身 to cover the body; protect the body
• 身心交病 worn out in body and soul
• 转身(轉身) to turn round; to face about ; to remarry ; to leave
• 孤身 alone; lonely
• 厕身(廁身) to participate; to play a humble role in
• 身量矮 short stature
• 地牛翻身 earthquake
• 罄身儿(罄身兒) nude
• 惹火烧身(惹火燒身) stir up the fire and you get burnt; to get one's fingers burnt
• 寄身 to stay temporarily
• 置身事外 to stay aloof from a matter
• 包身工 indentured laborer
• 抽身 to get away from; to withdraw; to free oneself
• 在身 to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit)
• 本身 itself; oneself
• 全身麻醉 general anesthetic
• 知命安身 to know one's fate and submit to it

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• 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
• 《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
• 《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
• 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 31
• 《龜策列傳》 Biographies of Diviners Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 31
• 卷五十三 Scroll 53 Wenxuan 文選 — 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
• 身有道 (身有道) 誠身有道 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean — 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
• 及身 (及身) 難將及身 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 2
• 诚身 (誠身) 誠身有道 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean — count: 2