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

• 机身宽大(機身寬大) wide body; wide-bodied (aircraft)
• 柔身术(柔身術) contortion (performance art)
• 以身报国(以身報國) to give one's body for the nation; to spend one's whole life in the service of the country
• 小作怡情，大作伤身(小作怡情，大作傷身) a little bit of it does one good, but carried to excess it's harmful
• 有氧健身操 aerobics
• 凶身(兇身) demon; fiend
• 探身 to lean forward; to lean out (of a window, door etc)
• 伏地挺身 pushup (exercise)
• 童身 undefiled body; virginity; virgin
• 粉骨碎身 crush your bones and shatter your body
• 满身(滿身) to be covered all over
• 摇身一变(搖身一變) to change shape in a single shake; to take on a new lease of life
• 身板 body; physique; physical condition
• 弓身 to bend the body at the waist; to bow
• 罄身儿(罄身兒) nude
• 打翻身仗 to work hard towards a turnaround; to fight to reverse sth
• 现身(現身) to show oneself; to appear; (of a deity) to appear in the flesh
• 分身乏术(分身乏術) to be up to one's ears in work; to be unable to attend to other things at the same time
• 身己 oneself ; body ; identity
• 终身监禁(終身監禁) life sentence
• 全身中毒性毒剂(全身中毒性毒劑) systemic agent; systemic gas; systemic poison
• 上身 upper body
• 身无长物(身無長物) to possess nothing except bare necessities; to live a poor or frugal life
• 人身攻击(人身攻擊) personal attack
• 前身 forerunner; predecessor; precursor ; a previous life
• 破身 to lose one's virginity
• 本身 itself; oneself
• 孑身 all by oneself
• 端身 to have an upright posture
• 重身子 pregnant; pregnant woman
• 身高马大(身高馬大) tall; huge
• 现身说法(現身說法) to teach the Dharma from personal experience
• 大显身手(大顯身手) fully displaying one's capabilities
• 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
• 奋不顾身(奮不顧身) to dash on bravely with no thought of personal safety; undaunted by dangers
• 修身 to practice self-cultivation; to cultivate
• 孑然一身 to be all alone by oneself
• 贴身卫队(貼身衛隊) personal bodyguard
• 泥菩萨过江，自身难保(泥菩薩過江，自身難保) like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety
• 身强力壮(身強力壯) strong and vigorous; sturdy; robust
• 下身 lower body
• 委身 to devote onself to; to submit to
• 身光 aureole
• 一身是胆(一身是膽) devoid of fear ; intrepid
• 文身 a tattoo
• 热身(熱身) to warm up (sports); to prepare; to get in condition
• 车身(車身) body of automobile
• 包在我身上 leave it to me; I'll take care of it
• 身之养重于义(身之養重於義) the importance righteousness in proper nourishing the self
• 在身 to possess; to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit)

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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
• 《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
• 用身 (用身) 今士之用身 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十二 貴義 Book 12 - Esteem for Righteousness — count: 3
• 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
• 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
• 身不正 (身不正) 其身不正 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 13. 《子路》 Zi Lu — count: 2
• 身正 (身正) 其身正 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 13. 《子路》 Zi Lu — 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
• 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