躯

軀
qū
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 7-9
Zhànshì men wèi guó juānqū.
The soldiers sacrificed their lives for their country.

Tips

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

Stroke Order

躯 qū