胴体

胴體
dòngtǐ
noun #32,941

Meanings

  1. 1 carcass (of a slaughtered animal)
  2. 2 the naked human body

Examples

HSK 7-9
Túzǎichǎng bǎ dòngtǐ guà zài gōuzi shàng.
The slaughterhouse hangs the carcasses on hooks.
HSK 7-9
Zhè fú yóuhuà miáohuì le nǚxìng de dòngtǐ.
This oil painting depicts the female nude.

Tips

register
胴体 is sharply two-faced. In meat-trade and veterinary writing it is the neutral technical term for an animal carcass (white-stripped, head and offal removed). In literary or art-criticism contexts it is a deliberately aestheticizing word for the unclothed human body - slightly clinical, slightly poetic. Don't use it casually about a living person.

Stroke Order

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