body

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
shēn body
Sound component
area

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰo
Unicodekio

說文解字

體也。从身區聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

body Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
shēn body
Sound component
area

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode