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尸体 (shī tǐ): meaning and stroke order

尸体 (shī tǐ) means corpse; dead body.

尸体

Simplified
尸体
Traditional
屍體
Pinyin
shī tǐ

Stroke order of 尸体

尸

  • shī (literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies); (literary) to put a corpse on display (after execution)
  • shī (bound form) corpse
  • 3 strokes
  • Traditional form: 屍

Stroke by stroke

体

  • tī used in 體己|体己[ti1 ji5]; Taiwan pr. [ti3]
  • tǐ body; form
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 體

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 尸体

  1. shī tǐ Traditional 屍體
    • corpse; dead body

Radicals of the characters

尸
Radical 尸 (Kangxi radical 44) · 3 strokes
体
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 7 strokes · 亻 on the left, 本 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

尸体 in our stories

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  • 白骨精丢下一具假尸体逃走了。在唐僧眼里，悟空却是打死了一个好心送饭的姑娘。

    Báigǔjīng diūxià yí jù jiǎ shītǐ táozǒu le zài Táng Sēng yǎn lǐ Wùkōng què shì dǎ sǐ le yí gè hǎoxīn sòng fàn de gūniang

    The demon escaped, leaving a false corpse behind. In Tang Seng's eyes, though, Wukong had killed a kind girl bringing them food.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

  • 书中记着这样一个案子。某天清晨，有人在村外的小路旁发现了一具尸体，身上有十几处伤口。

    shū zhōng jì zhe zhèyàng yí gè ànzi mǒu tiān qīngchén yǒu rén zài cūn wài de xiǎolù páng fāxiàn le yí jù shītǐ shēnshang yǒu shíjǐ chù shāngkǒu

    The book records a case like this. Early one morning someone found a body beside a path outside a village, with more than ten wounds on it.

    From the story The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 尸体

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).