胴 (dòng): the torso; the trunk of the bod…

Meanings

屠宰场里，胴体要称重分级。

Túzǎichǎng lǐ, dòngtǐ yào chēngzhòng fēnjí.

At the slaughterhouse the carcasses are weighed and graded.

雕塑家塑造出人体胴体流畅的线条。

Diāosùjiā sùzào chū réntǐ dòngtǐ liúchàng de xiàntiáo.

The sculptor shaped the smooth lines of the human torso.

usage

Almost always 胴体 — either a dressed animal carcass (head, limbs and organs removed) in butchery, or, in literary use, the bare human trunk.

radical

⺼ ròu

flesh; body

Left side is the flesh radical ⺼ (the meat form of 肉), used for body-part words — here the trunk of the body.

phonetic

同 tóng

same; sound element

Right side 同 gives the sound; the reading shifts to 胴. The hollow 同 shape also faintly suits the hollow body cavity sense.

胴 dòng