noun #17,438

Meanings

  1. 1 human body
  2. 2 torso

Examples

HSK 5
Tā gāodà de shēnqū dǎngzhù le ménkǒu.
His tall body blocked the doorway.
HSK 6
Zhànshì men wèi guó juānqū.
The soldiers sacrificed their lives for their country.

Tips

usage
is literary and rarely used alone. Common compounds: 身躯 (body), 躯体 (physical body), 捐躯 (to sacrifice one's life), 躯壳 (physical shell/body).

Components

radical
shēn
body (Kangxi #158)
Left - pictograph of a person in profile with a pregnant belly, the original picture of a human body. As indexing radical of it grounds the meaning in the physical frame, marking the character as anatomical. Same radical heads (dodge) and (lie down), all postures of the body.
phonetic
region; area
Right supplies the sound - qū = qū, no shift. The traditional used phonetic with three inside; the reform replaced with the simpler across the family ( expel, area, body, rough terrain), keeping the qū reading. Treat the modern as a contracted phonetic placeholder.

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