(tǐ) - body; form, style (in 身体, 简体) in Mandarin
tǐTraditional: 體
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Translation
body; form, style (in 身体, 简体)
Word origin
In the simplified form a compound of the person radical 亻and 本 (běn, root, basis), a person's fundamental frame, hence body; the traditional 體 uses the bone radical 骨.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- 亻 (person radical) + 本 (běn, root); traditional 骨 (bone) based
Stroke order
体
Examples
？
Are you keeping well?
。
I'm studying simplified characters.
。
Please take care of your health.
壮。
His body is very strong.
。
He is in good health.
体 (tǐ) means body, and by extension form or style. It is the second syllable in 身体 (body, health) and in writing-system labels such as 简体 (simplified script) and 黑体 (bold typeface).
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 体.
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