body

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
身 meaning component

  Meaning component

shēn

  

body

區 sound component

  Sound component

  

area

Evolution

軀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
軀 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
軀 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

body; human body

Most common words with 軀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

躯体

body

身躯

body

human body

躯干

trunk

躯壳

the body (housing the soul)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.4210% of movies

2558th most common character in movies

2310th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+8EC0

Shuowen

“軀,體也。从身,區聲。”


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