The flesh is mortal.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
肉体
physical body
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
physical body
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 肉体 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 肉体 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The soul is the prison of the body.
The soul animates the body.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 肉体.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 肉体.
Directly before
- 赋予肉体1
- 忍受着肉体1
- 超越肉体1
- 是肉体1
Directly after
- 肉体生命1
- 肉体终有1
- 肉体和1
- 肉体之上1
- 肉体的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 肉体
What does 肉体 mean in Chinese?
肉体 (ròutǐ) means physical body.
How do you pronounce 肉体?
肉体 is pronounced ròutǐ.
Is 肉体 an HSK word?
肉体 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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