体 (karada) Kanji Meaning: "Body" | Learn Kanji with Pictures

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Drawing: A person and a solid tree trunk, standing firm: the body.

体 means body

substance, object, reality

A person and a solid tree trunk, standing firm: the body.

On'yomi

  • タイtai
  • テイtei

Kun'yomi

  • からだkarada
  • かたちkatachi

How it's built

  • 亻person
  • 本root

Common words

  • 体からだbody
  • 体重たいじゅう(body) weight
  • 人体じんたいhuman body
  • 体長たいちょうlength (of an animal); body length

Through history

  1. Bronze script form of 体Bronze
  2. Seal script form of 体Seal
  3. Today
Written 體 before Japan's postwar reform.

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