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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
- —馬身horse's length
- —病身weak constitution; ill health
- —渾身(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies
- —身代fortune; property
- —身上fortune; property; life circumstances; finances; housekeeping; one's worth; one's merit; asset; strong point
- —投身throwing oneself to one's death; precipitating oneself to one's death; leaping to one's death
- —捨身renouncing the flesh or the world; becoming a priest; sacrificing one's life for the sake of mankind or Buddhist teachings
- —挺身offering oneself (for); volunteering (to do); coming forward; going ahead of others
- —随身bodyguard (of a noble or high-ranking official); guard; escort; attendant; aide; assistant; statues of guards that flank the gate of a shrine
- —身中within one's body
- —身命one's life
- —小身humble position
- —砲身gun barrel
- —大身person of high rank or income
- —法身dharmakaya (dharma body, Buddhism's highest form of existence)
- —満身the whole body; all one's (strength, anger, spirit, etc.)
- —裸身naked body; naked sword
- —葉身lamina; leaf blade; blade; leaf-like; blade-shaped; foliaceous
- —焼身self-immolation
- —頭身head and body; heads tall (ratio of total height to length of the head); heads long