身(shēn): body
HSK 17 strokes
body
Stroke order animation
Character information
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Meaning
- body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Traditional
- Same
Origin & structure
Where 身 comes from and how its parts fit together.
Pictograph
A pregnant woman
A drawing of the thing it names.
How to write 身 step by step
7 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.
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Words with 身
Common words using 身 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.
shàng上shēn身
upper part of the body; to put on (clothes on the upper body); (of a spirit…
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