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
- —身体言語body language
- —地方出身country-bred; raised in the country
- —身体症状physical symptom; somatic symptom
- —男性自身penis
- —保身第一looking out for oneself; self-protection first
- —自己保身protecting one's own interests; self-serving behavior; putting one's own skin first
- —身辺小説novel depicting the author's personal life; I-novel
- —全身打撲having bruises all over one's body; multiple contusions; full-body bruising
- —終身雇用制(Japanese) system of lifetime employment
- —人身保護法Act on Protection of Personal Liberty
- —心身障害児child with a physical or mental disability; disabled child
- —心身障害者person with a physical or mental disability; disabled person
- —単身赴任者employee posted away from their family
- —女子挺身隊women's volunteer corps; groups of young female workers organized on Japanese territory during WWII
- —心身二元論mind-body dualism
- —身体装検器type of detector used at airports
- —変身ベルトsuper hero belt; transformation belt
- —全身性疾患systemic disease; systemic disorder
- —全身麻酔薬general anesthetic; general anaesthetic
- —保身に走るto take to defending oneself above all; to save one's skin