The kanji 身: meaning, readings and stroke order

身

Meaning: body, oneself
On reading: シン shin
Kun reading: み mi
Strokes: 7
Radical: 身 body
Level: Level 3 · grade 3

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: thân mình, bản thân (thân)
Japanese: からだ。じぶん。
Korean: 몸, 자기 (신)
Chinese: 身体、自己

Readings, words and example sentences

シン shin · on reading

出しゅっ身しん
where you are from
父は東京の 出しゅっ身しんです。
My father is from Tokyo.

み mi · kun reading

身み
oneself, body
新しい力を身みにつけます。
I learn a new skill.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.