身 (san1 | shen1) : body; life; oneself

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身

san1

shen1

[1] body; trunk; hull
[2] life; lifetime
[3] oneself; in person
[4] moral character; social status

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Stroke count: 7

Level: 1

Radical: (#158)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

身

This word has been viewed 29495 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 18th Oct 2014 02:29

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脱身 tyut3 san1 tuo1 shen1 = to get away / to escape (from obligations) ; to free oneself ; to disengage [粵]甩身

起身 hei2 san1 qi3 shen1 = to wake up; to get up

它本身 taa1 bun2 san1 ta1 ben3 shen1 = itself 國

過身 gwo3 san1 guo4 shen1 = pass away; die 粵

全身 cyun4 san1 quan2 shen1 = the entire body; the whole body

周身 zau1 san1 zhou1 shen1 = whole body 粵

自身 zi6 san1 zi4 shen1 = oneself; personally; one's own

身高 san1 gou1 shen1 gao1 = a person's height

熱身 jit6 san1 re4 shen1 = warm up

隨身行李 ceoi4 san1 hang4 lei5 sui2 shen1 xing2 li3 = carry on luggage
See all 250 compounds (CantoDict reports 256 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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我聽日七點鐘要起身。粵
I need to wake up at 7 o'clock tomorrow.

今年聖誕節不要在我身上花錢喔！國
Don't spend your money on me this Christmas!

我周身冇力粵
I don't have any energy.

老虎的身上有很多黑棕色的條紋國
A tiger has many black-brown stripes on its body.

牛奶出自乳牛身上
Cow's milk comes from the body of dairy cows
[Instead of saying "cow produces milk", it sounds more natural to say it the other way: "milk comes from cow"]

有個叫平仔嘅學生起身粵
A student called Ping stood up.
[Lit. have [counter] call Ping-boy [possessive particle] student stand-up]

跌親就企返起身啦！粵
If you fall over, get back up again!
[Lit. fall bad-thing, stand back up body. As the translation suggests, this is actually a conditional sentence, even though it might not seem like it. More explicitly we could say 如果你跌親嘅話，你就企返起身啦！]

佢踩單車喺我身邊飛過。粵
She flew past me on her bike.
[飛過 is a metaphor matched by "flew past".]

我的身體沒問題。國
There are no problems with my health.

畀架車瀄到成身泥粵
We're splashed with mud from head to toe by the passing car.
[lit. "the entire body"]

反到成身都咁𣲷/nap6/,重唔去沖個涼粵
You are all sweaty and sticky after playing. Quickly go for your shower.

佢枕住健身個肌肉都係咁鬆婄,只得半粒老鼠仔咋粵
He has been working out for a long time, yet his muscles are still soft, with only half-developed biceps.

你身高只有五呎九﹐想入籃球隊𠍁水啲噃。粵
Your height of five-foot-nine is not tall enough to enter the basketball team.

向客戶核實身份
Verify status with the customer

逼到佢使出渾身解數粵
Forced him to pit all his skills

豈但年青人愛好運動，就連上了年紀的人也積極鍛煉身體。
Not only are the young keen in sports, even the elderly are enthusiastic about physical training.

早睡早起身體好。
It is good for our body's health to sleep and get up early.

而家啲細路真係身在福中不知福！粵
Children nowadays really don't know how fortunate they are.

李連杰都算幾錫身,導演都幫佢搵埋替身啦粵
Jet Li takes pretty good care of himself, his movie director even found a stand-in for him.
[(So that he doesn't have to do the stunts himself.)]

捩轉身就唔見咗人粵
He disappeared as soon as I turned around.

我希望畢業後投身醫療界。
I hope to join the health care industry after graduation.

我哋會瞓身去做好呢份工。粵
We'll give this job our best shot.

今日畀蚊咬到成身蚊𧕴。粵
I was covered by mosquito bites today.
[Lit. Today by mosquito bite arrive whole-body mosquito-bite]

佢琴晚冇閂窗，一醒發覺身體有四粒蚊𧕴粵
He didn't shut the window yesterday. When he woke up found that he had four mosquito bites.

做緊健身操嗰個人係我細佬。粵
The guy doing the keep-fit exercise is my brother.
[In the Canto version, the noun 'guy' is placed after the verbal phrase which modifies the noun. In the English version, the noun is placed before the phrase.]

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