身

身 (radical 158, 身+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹X竹 (HXH), four-corner 2740₀)

1. Kangxi radical #158, ⾝.

• KangXi: page 1237, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38034
• Dae Jaweon: page 1709, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3807, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8EAB

Historical forms of the character 身
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) : from a pictograph of a pregnant woman.

身

1. (anatomy) body
2. (figuratively) 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
10. Classifier for suits of clothes.

身

1. Only used in 身毒 (Juāndú).

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. body
2. identity

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: み (mi, 身, Jōyō); む (mu, 身); むくろ (mukuro, 身)

From Old Japanese. Cognate with 実 (mi, “seed, fruit, offspring”).[1]

Standalone form of mu below. May derive as mu + い (i, emphatic nominative particle). See also the etymology of 神 (kami, kamu).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) み [mì] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mʲi]

身 (hiragana み, rōmaji mi)

1. a body; (by extension):
   1. the main part of something
   2. the blade of a sword
   3. oneself
   4. one's position, one's social standing or circumstances
   5. meat, flesh
   6. wood (emphasis on the inside, as opposed to the bark)

From Old Japanese. Bound form of mi above, only found in compounds.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝ]

身 (hiragana む, rōmaji mu)

1. (only in compounds) a body

From Old Japanese. Compound of 身 (mu, “body”, bound form of standalone mi) +‎ くろ (kuro). The derivation of the kuro element is uncertain, but it might be an alteration or ancient form of 幹 (kara, “trunk, main part”).[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) むくろ [mùkúró] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ᵝkɯ̟ᵝɾo̞]

• 躯, 骸

身 (hiragana むくろ, rōmaji mukuro)

1. a living body
   • 720, 日本書紀 (Nihon Shoki, “Chronicles of Japan”), Volume 7, in the section on 景行天皇 (Keikō-tennō, Emperor Keikō):

     身體長大

     人 (ひと)となり、むくろ長 (たか)く大 (おお)きにして

     hitotonari, mukuro takaku ōki ni shite

     His personality and body were lofty and great

2. a dead body, a corpse
   • 14th century, 太平記 (Taiheiki):

     御首 (おんくび)は敷皮 (しきかは)の上 (うえ)に落 (お)ちて質 (むくろ)は尚 (なほ)坐 (ざ)せるが如 (ごと)し

     onkubi wa shikikawa no ue ni ochite mukuro wa naozaseru ga gotoshi

     The head fell onto the hide rug, and the corpse looked as if it were sitting straight...

3. a rotten tree trunk

• 身 (むくろ)籠 (ごめ) (mukurogome), 躯 (むくろ)籠 (ごめ) (mukurogome): one's entire body

From Middle Chinese 身 (syin, “body, self”).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • IPA^(key): [ɕĩɴ]

身 (hiragana しん, rōmaji shin)

1. a body

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

• 身 (しん)体 (たい) (shintai): a body, one's body

身 • (sin) (hangeul 신, McCune–Reischauer sin, Yale sin)

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身 (thân)

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