Translingual

Han character

体 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人木一 (ODM), four-corner 2523₀, composition ⿰亻本)

1. body (as simplification of 體)
2. group, class, body, unit (as simplification of 體)
3. inferior (as traditional 体)

Usage notes

Readings as traditional 体 (inferior):

• ban6 (Cantonese), bèn (Mandarin), bun (Korean), or hon (Japanese).

Readings as simplification of 體 (body, group):

• Cantonese tai2, Mandarin tǐ , Korean che, Japanese tei and tai, and Vietnamese thể.

See also

• 休

References

• KangXi: page 98, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 509
• Dae Jaweon: page 208, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 130, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4F53

Chinese

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 體)

1. body

Readings

• Goon: たい (tai)
• Kan’on: てい (tei)
• Kun: からだ (karada)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) からだ [kàrádá] (Heiban - [0])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠ɾ̠a̠da̠]

Alternative forms

• 躯, 身体

Noun

体 ‎(hiragana からだ, romaji karada)

1. body
2. health

Derived terms

• 体付 (からだつ)き ‎(karadatsuki)

Etymology 2

From Middle Chinese 體 ‎(thej^X, “body”).

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Goon
• (Tokyo) た​い [táꜜì] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠i]

Counter

体 ‎(hiragana たい, romaji -tai)

1. counter for humanoid objects

Noun

体 ‎(hiragana たい, romaji tai)

1. body
2. form
3. (algebra) field (commutative ring with invertible nonzero elements)

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• On'yomi: Kan'on
• (Tokyo) て​い [téꜜè] (Atamadaka - [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [te̞ː]

Alternative forms

• 態

Noun

体 ‎(hiragana てい, romaji tei)

1. appearance

Derived terms

• 体裁 (ていさい) ‎(teisai)
• 体良 (ていよ)く ‎(teiyoku)

References

1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
2. 1 2 3 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

体 • ‎(bun, che)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 분, 체 (revised: bun, che, McCune-Reischauer: pun, ch'e, Yale: pun, chey)

• Name (hangeul): 용렬하다, 몸 (revised: yongnyeolhada, mom, McCune-Reischauer: yongnyŏrhada, mom, Yale: yonglyelhada, mom)

1. mediocre (분)
2. rough
3. pallbearer
4. body (체)
5. personally
6. shape
7. root
8. formality
9. matter
10. object
11. handwriting
12. style
13. experience
14. get by experience
15. acknowledge
16. think

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Vietnamese

Han character

体 (thể)

1. body