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- body
- life
- oneself
- personally
- one's morality and conduct
- the main part of a structure or body
- pregnant
- classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset
- Kangxi radical 158
- upper part of the body
- to put on (clothes on the upper body)
- (of a spirit, disease, misfortune etc) to afflict one; to possess one
Trad. 廁身
- (humble expression) to participate (in sth); to play a humble role in
- to lose weight (intentionally)
- to slim down
- (Tw) to downsize (a business)
Trad. 躋身
- to rise into the ranks of; to be among (the best)
- to get into (an industry, trade etc)
- to give oneself wholly to
- to put oneself at sb's service
- (of a woman) to give one's body to
- to marry
- to stand upright (physically)
- to establish oneself (morally or socially); to conduct oneself with integrity
- forerunner
- predecessor
- precursor
- previous incarnation (Buddhism)
- jacket front
Trad. 搖身
- lit. to shake one's body
- refers to abrupt transformation
- same as 搖身一變|摇身一变
- to turn over (when lying)
- (fig.) to free oneself
- to emancipate oneself
- to bring about a change of one's fortunes
- stand-in
- substitute
- body double
- stuntman
- scapegoat
- fall guy
- to stand in for sb else
Trad. 轉身
- (of a person) to turn round
- to face about
- (of a widow) to remarry (archaic)
Trad. 變身
- to undergo a transformation; to morph; to turn into
- transformed version of sb or sth; new incarnation
- identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." 以[yi3] + ... + 的身份[de5 shen1 fen4]); status (social, legal etc); position; rank
Trad. 身價
- social status
- price of a slave
- price of a person (a sportsman etc)
- worth
- value (of stocks, valuables etc)
- oneself and one's family
- family background
- pedigree
- one's property
- one's total assets
Trad. 身後
- the time after one's death
- a place behind sb
- (fig.) one's social background
Trad. 強身
- to strengthen one's body; to keep fit; to build up one's health (through exercise, nutrition etc)
- to possess
- to be occupied or burdened with (work, a contract, a lawsuit)
Trad. 身處
- in (some place)
- to be in (adversity, a difficult situation, danger, turmoil etc)
- to find oneself in
- placed in
- surrounded by
Trad. 身長
- height (of person)
- length of clothing from shoulders to bottom (tailor or dressmaker's measure)
- (of one who has supernatural powers) to replicate oneself so as to appear in two or more places at the same time
- a derivative version of sb (or sth) (e.g. avatar, proxy, clone, sockpuppet)
- to spare some time for a separate task
- to cut a corpse into pieces
- to pull a body apart by the four limbs
- parturition
Trad. 獻身
- to commit one's energy to
- to devote oneself to
- to sacrifice one's life for
- (coll.) (of a woman) to give one's virginity to
Trad. 纏身
- (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one
Trad. 脫身
- to get away
- to escape (from obligations)
- to free oneself
- to disengage
- one's body as wood and earth
- undecorated
- unvarnished (truth)
- lower half of one's body
- Lower Body (Chinese poetry movement of the early 21st century)
Trad. 終身俸
- (Tw) pension (for retired military, civil service and teaching personnel)
Trad. 陳省身
- Shiing-Shen Chern (1911-2004), Chinese-American mathematician
Trad. 隱身草
- legendary grass conferring invisibility
- fig. to conceal oneself or one's plans
Trad. 單身汪
- (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
Trad. 單身狗
- (Internet slang) person who is neither married nor in a relationship (used self-deprecatingly)
Trad. 言傳身教
- to teach by words and example (idiom)
Trad. 驗明正身
- to identify
- to verify sb's identity
- identification
- to showcase one's talents; to display one's prowess
Trad. 現身說法
- to talk from one's personal experience
- to use oneself as an example
Trad. 捨身求法
- to abandon one's body in the search for Buddha's truth (idiom)
- (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)
Trad. 隨身道具
- (theater) personal prop (spectacles, fan etc)
Trad. 立身處世
- (idiom) the way one conducts oneself in society
Trad. 鹹魚翻身
- lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom)
- fig. to experience a reversal of fortune