躬
gōng HSK7

body

躬 gōng
bow verb
to bend the body forward as a sign of respect or to perform a task

他躬身行礼，向来宾表示欢迎。

tā gōng shēn xíng​lǐ, xiàng lái​bīn biǎo​shì huān​yíng.

He bowed to welcome the guests.

body noun
the human body, especially the torso in a literary context

那位老教授对待学术事必躬亲，从不马虎应付。

nà​wèi lǎo jiào​shòu duì​dài xué​shù shì​bì​gōng​qīn, cóng bù mǎ​hu yìng​fu.

The old professor takes a hands-on approach to his academic work and is never sloppy or perfunctory.

personally verb
doing something by oneself or in person

纸上得来终觉浅，绝知此事要躬行。

zhǐ​shàng dé lái zhōng jué qiǎn, jué zhī cǐ shì yào gōng​xíng.

What is learned from books is always superficial; to understand something deeply, one must practice it personally.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,650th most common 15.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,787th most common 4.97 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.91 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.15 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8EAC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)