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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
- —三身trikaya (three bodies of the Buddha)
- —報身sambhogakaya (reward body, form taken by a buddha after completing its role as a bodhisattva)
- —色身rupakaya (the physical body, esp. of a buddha)
- —応身nirmanakaya (response body, form taken by a buddha according to the capabilities of those who are to be saved)
- —身廊nave (of a church)
- —仏身buddhakaya (the body of Buddha)
- —後身successor (e.g. organization); new existence after rebirth
- —身光aureole (of a Buddhist statue; surrounding the body but not the head); aureola
- —剣身sword blade
- —身毒India
- —身位rank and social status (e.g. in the imperial family)
- —検身strip search
- —文身tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
- —老身old bones; aged body; advanced age
- —砕身working so hard as to ruin one's body; struggling to the point of crushing oneself
- —生身physical body of Buddha or a bodhisattva; body one is born with
- —河身(river) channel
- —穢身defiled body; unenlightened person's body
- —現身living person; mortal; this physical body; one's current body; flesh and blood; incarnation (of a Buddha or bodhisattva); earthly manifestation; this world; this life; the present world
- —短身short stature