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[1] body; trunk; hull [2] life; lifetime [3] oneself; in person [4] moral character; social status Default PoS: Additional PoS: Stroke count: 7
Level: 1
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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脱身 tyut3 san1 = to get away / to escape (from obligations) ; to free oneself ; to disengage [粵]甩身 起身 hei2 san1 = to wake up; to get up 它本身 taa1 bun2 san1 = itself 國 過身 gwo3 san1 = pass away; die 粵 全身 cyun4 san1 = the entire body; the whole body 周身 zau1 san1 = whole body 粵 自身 zi6 san1 = oneself; personally; one's own 身高 san1 gou1 = a person's height 熱身 jit6 san1 = warm up 隨身行李 ceoi4 san1 hang4 lei5 = carry on luggage See all 250 compounds (CantoDict reports 256 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing all 25 examples containing 身
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.
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.
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.)]
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.] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |