肉体

にくたい

body, flesh

Mnemonic

Meat and body, which is the body as a physical object rather than as you. A nick にく of meat and a tie たい round it, and it does not last forever: にくたい.

Worth knowing

精神せいしん is the mind, and 肉体 is the thing it gets set against. 身体しんたい is the body as a whole, health included, where 肉体 is the flesh of it.

Built from

肉

meat, flesh

A pictograph of a cut of meat with the grain drawn through it.

体

body

亻 person + 本 root, origin

Words sharing these kanji

肉 flesh, meat 体 body 一体 what on earth, what the…身体 body 正体 true character, true form 大体 mostly 体力 stamina, endurance 全体 whole, total 死体 corpse, body

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