Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

88 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 7

Meaning: body, substance, object, reality, counter for images

Kunyomi: からだ かたち

Onyomi: タイ テイ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: にんべん

Meaning: man, human

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

重(たいじゅう)   body weight

力(たいりょく)   physical strength

(だいたい)   in general, mostly

(ぜんたい)   entirety, whole

(だんたい)   group, team, organization

的な(ぐたいてきな)   concrete

験する(たいけんする)   experience

(からだ)   body

中(からだじゅう)   throughout the body

Onyomi Examples

タイ body, physique, posture, shape, form, style, substance, identity, reality, field, counter for humanoid forms (e.g. dolls, statues, corpses, etc.), typeface, type

タイイク physical education, PE, gym (class)

セイタイ organism, living body

カイタイ demolition, taking down, dismantling, disassembly, taking apart, dissolution (of an organization, company, etc.), breaking up, dissection (of a body), dismemberment

テイ appearance, air, condition, state, form

テイサイ (outward) appearance, (proper) format (e.g. of an essay), form, style, appearances, decency, show, display, lip-service, insincere words, glib talk

シンタイ body, physical system, (the) person

フウテイ appearance, look, dress

Kunyomi Examples

からだ body, torso, trunk, build, physique, frame, figure, health, constitution, corpse, dead body

つき からだつき body build, figure

おからだ body

おんからだ body of Christ (Eucharist)

なりかたち one's appearance