体

tǐ

body

form; style; system; substance; to experience; aspect (linguistics)

person (亻) + root (本) = the body as a person's foundation

本 originally meant 'root' or 'origin' — the fundamental part of a tree. A person's body is their root, the substance from which everything else grows.

亻+本→体
亻A personSemantic
本RootSemantic

他每天运动,身体很健康。

tā měi tiān yùn dòng,shēn tǐ hěn jiàn kāng。

He exercises every day, and his body is very healthy.

这篇文章的文体很正式,不适合年轻读者。

zhè piān wén zhāng de wén tǐ hěn zhèng shì,bù shì hé nián qīng dú zhě。

The style of this article is very formal and not suitable for young readers.

Words with 体

体重

tǐ zhòng

body weight

胶体

jiāo tǐ

colloid

德智体美

dé zhì tǐ měi

the aims of education: morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetic sense

本体论

běn tǐ lùn

ontology

等离子体

děng lí zǐ tǐ

plasma (physics)

体外

tǐ wài

outside the body

全体

quán tǐ

all

得体

dé tǐ

appropriate to the occasion

九面体

jiǔ miàn tǐ

enneahedron (solid figure having nine plane faces)

软体

ruǎn tǐ

(of an animal) soft-bodied

肢体

zhī tǐ

limb

黄体

huáng tǐ

corpus luteum (glands in female mammals producing progesterone)

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