tǐ
body
Phonosemantic compound. 骨 represents the meaning and 豊 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 體
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
the body | ||
dead body | ||
media, esp. news media | ||
concrete | ||
body |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*r̥ˤijʔ | thejX | tǐ | body; limbs |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 87.3458% of movies
292nd most common character in movies
149th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9AD4 |
Shuowen | “體,總十二屬也。从骨,豊聲。” |
Sources
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