胴体

胴體
dòngtǐ
noun #32,941

Meanings

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

Examples

Túzǎichǎng bǎ dòngtǐ guà zài gōuzi shàng.
The slaughterhouse hangs the carcasses on hooks.
Zhè fú yóuhuà miáohuìle nǚxìng de dòngtǐ.
This oil painting depicts the female nude.

Tips

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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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