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体 — body, substance, object

からだ体 body

Grade 2 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes body

U+4F53 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #88 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #957 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

body
substance
object

word

からだ karada Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

体(からだ) karada body

たい tai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

自(じ) 体(たい) jitai itself 一(いっ) 体(たい) ittai what on earth 大(だい) 体(たい) daitai roughly 本(ほん) 体(たい) hontai main body 体(たい) 力(りょく) tairyoku physical strength 肉(にく) 体(たい) nikutai physical body 正(しょう) 体(たい) shoutai true identity 体(たい) 内(ない) tainai inside the body

てい tei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

体(てい) 裁(さい) teisai appearance

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ひと人 person #9

亻 person (left form)

ほん本 book

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 亻 (person) provides the semantic domain — the human body. 本 (hon, origin/root) gives both the sound and a connotation: the body is the root or foundation of a person. Simplified from the traditional form 體.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#9 人 person