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本身 běnshēn

本身 běnshēn Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 3 English Translations of the word 本身 běnshēn .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
běnshēn | ben3 shen1
English translation
itself
in itself
per se

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Traditional form

本身 běnshēn

Part of speech

Pronoun / 代词 dài cí Dàicí
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Etymology of 本身 běnshēn

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běn

Type

ideographic

Explanation

Addition of a horizontal line toward the bottom of (tree) to represent the roots of the tree.

Positional decomposition

木一

Number of Strokes

5
shēn

Type

pictographic

Explanation

Pictograph of a person with an protruding midsection. The protruding midsection is variously explained as (1) representing the main part of a person's body, or (2) as representing a pregnant woman that has a body inside her body.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

7

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Example sentences using 本身 běnshēn

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Nián quán 包括 bāokuò 土地 tǔdì 本身 běnshēn de 财产权 cái chǎn quán .

The annualrent right did not carry the property in the lands themselves.

zhè 古老 gǔ lǎo 建筑 jiànzhù de 风格 fēnggé 本身 běnshēn jiù gòu 使 shǐ rén 着迷 zháomí .

The very style of the old house fascinates.

zài 看来 kàn lai , zhè shì 本身 běnshēn 只不过 zhǐ bu guò 说明 shuōmíng le 妇女 fùnǚ zài 表达 biǎodá 她们 tā men de 感情 gǎnqíng shí ,总是 zǒngshì 小题大作 dà zuò .

It'suggested itself to him that women were often very emphatic in their expressions.

de mèng 使 shǐ 我们 wǒmen 想起 xiǎng qǐ 兰波 de zuì zhōu 》, zhè shǒu Shī de 本身 běnshēn zhī .

His dream may recall to us Rimbaud's'Le Bateau ivre ', which itself derived from Poe.

zhè zuò jiù qiáo 现在 xiànzài 几乎 jīhū chēng 本身 běnshēn de 重量 zhòngliàng le .

The old bridge can hardly bear up its own weight now.

本身 běnshēn Decomposition

See the 2 Chinese characters that make up 本身 běnshēn and their own compounds.

本身 běnshēn Compounds

See all 54 Chinese words that contain the characters that make up the word 本身 běnshēn in their composition.

  • běn
    • , bèn , běn , , pēn , , , , , , , ,
  • shēn
    • shè
    • gōng
      • gōng , qióng
      • gōng ,
    • duǒ , tǎng , , , , duǒ , , kēng , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 躿, , , , , , , , , ,
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