Chinese Character Wiki
體

tǐ

body

Phonosemantic compound. 骨 represents the meaning and 豊 represents the sound.

Components
骨 meaning component

骨  Meaning component

gǔ

  

bone

豊 sound component

豊  Sound component

lǐ, fēng

  

abundant

Evolution

體 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
體 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
體 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
體 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

体 (體) 

tǐ

body; group, class, body, unit; form; style; system; substance; to experience; aspect (linguistics)

Most common words with 體
Freq.
Word
Meaning

身体

the body

尸体

dead body

媒体

media, esp. news media

具体

concrete

体

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

体

Unicode

U+9AD4

Shuowen

“體，總十二屬也。从骨，豊聲。”


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