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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
- —心身症psychosomatic illness
- —護身術art of self-defense (defence)
- —ご自身yourself; himself; herself
- —彼自身himself; he himself
- —身障児(physically) disabled child
- —独身男single male; bachelor
- —加持身buddha-body within a practitioner (esoteric Buddhism); altruistic manifested form of Mahavairocana (New Shingon)
- —本地身(dharma-body of) Vairocana
- —身口意action, speech and thought
- —全身性systemic
- —大変身makeover; major change
- —即身仏monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification
- —護身刀sword used for self-defense
- —小身者person with a humble salary; person of a low condition
- —意生身mind-made body; body as born out of a certain kind of intent or mindfulness
- —護身用(for) self-defense; (for) self-protection
- —身体上physical; bodily; corporeal
- —八頭身beautiful well-proportioned woman (body 8 times longer than head)
- —単身者person living alone; single person; bachelor; spinster; unmarried person
- —身体刑corporal punishment; physical punishment