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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

形体

xíngtǐ

figure

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

figure

02

physique

03

form and structure

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 形体 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 形体 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

精神就是形体,形体就是精神。因此,形体存在,精神才存在,形体衰亡,精神也就消灭。jīng shén jiù shì xíng tǐ, xíng tǐ jiù shì jīng shén。 yīn cǐ, xíng tǐ cún zài, jīng shén cái cún zài, xíng tǐ shuāi wáng, jīng shén yě jiù xiāo miè。

No published English translation for this sentence.

歧伯说:「这是天地本身的阴阳运行,并不是四时与五行按照次序运转。至於阴阳,它有名字却没有形体,所以可以分为十类,可以拆为百类,可以散为千类,可以推演为万类,说的就是这个道理。」qí bó shuō:「zhè shì tiān dì běn shēn de yīn yáng yùn xíng, bìng bú shì sì shí yǔ wǔ xíng àn zhào cì xù yùn zhuàn。 zhì yú yīn yáng, tā yǒu míng zì què méi yǒu xíng tǐ, suǒ yǐ kě yǐ fēn wéi shí lèi, kě yǐ chāi wèi bǎi lèi, kě yǐ sàn wèi qiān lèi, kě yǐ tuī yǎn wèi wàn lèi, shuō de jiù shì zhè ge dào lǐ。」

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COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 形体.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 形体.

Directly before

  • 就是形体1
  • 没有形体1

Directly after

  • 形体就是1
  • 形体存在1
  • 形体衰亡1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 形体

What does 形体 mean in Chinese?

形体 (xíngtǐ) means figure.

How do you pronounce 形体?

形体 is pronounced xíngtǐ.

Is 形体 an HSK word?

形体 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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