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  san1   jyutping
  shen1   pinyin
[1] body; trunk; hull
[2] life; lifetime
[3] oneself; in person
[4] moral character; social status

Default PoS: noun Additional PoS: pronoun
Stroke count: 7
Level: 1
Radical: (#158)

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

This word has been viewed 27720 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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detail  tyut3 san1  tuo1 shen1 = to get away / to escape (from obligations) ; to free oneself ; to disengage [粵]甩身
detail  hei2 san1  qi3 shen1 = to wake up; to get up
detail  taa1 bun2 san1  ta1 ben3 shen1 = itself
detail  gwo3 san1  guo4 shen1 = pass away; die
detail  cyun4 san1  quan2 shen1 = the entire body; the whole body
detail  zau1 san1  zhou1 shen1 = whole body
detail  zi6 san1  zi4 shen1 = oneself; personally; one's own
detail  san1 gou1  shen1 gao1 = a person's height
detail  jit6 san1  re4 shen1 = warm up
detail  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)

Showing 10 of 25 examples containing 身
detail audio 聽日點鐘起身
I need to wake up at 7 o'clock tomorrow.
detail 今年聖誕節不要身上花錢
Don't spend your money on me this Christmas!
detail audio 周身
I don't have any energy.
detail 老虎身上很多棕色條紋
A tiger has many black-brown stripes on its body.
detail 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"]
detail 學生起身
A student called Ping stood up.
[Lit. have [counter] call Ping-boy [possessive particle] student stand-up]
detail 跌親起身
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!]
detail 踩單車身邊飛過
She flew past me on her bike.
[飛過 is a metaphor matched by "flew past".]
detail 我的身體沒問題
There are no problems with my health.
detail audio 成身
We're splashed with mud from head to toe by the passing car.
[lit. "the entire body"]
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: This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
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