Kanji1 / 7
身 kanji
somebody, person, one's station in life
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シン
Kun readings
み
Words with 身
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —人身取引human trafficking
- —身体装飾body ornamentation (adornment, tattoos, etc.)
- —心身医学psychosomatic medicine
- —身体障害physical disability; handicap
- —平均身長average height; average body height
- —身体能力physical ability
- —身体検査physical examination; medical checkup; frisking; pat-down; search
- —投身自殺suicide by throwing oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death
- —全身疾患systemic disease; systemic disorder
- —独身女性single woman; spinster
- —身辺整理putting one's affairs in order; ordering one's affairs; tidying up
- —身土不二you are what you eat; slogan encouraging consumption of local seasonal foods for one's health; indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land)
- —身土不二inseparability of body/mind and geographical circumstances
- —役身折酬debt bondage (ritsuryō system); forced labor on failure to pay a debt
- —身辺警護personal security; personal protection; provision of a bodyguard
- —独身主義voluntary singlehood (as a principle or creed); singlehood by choice
- —化身ラマtulku; reincarnate Tibetan lama
- —半身麻痺hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body)
- —身体測定body measurements
- —単身世帯single-person household