Chinese symbol for “torso”
本体
běn tǐ
Traditional: 本體
main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for torso is 本体 (běn tǐ), defined as: main part; torso; the thing in itself; noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “torso”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 本体.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 根本 | gēn běn | fundamental; basic |
| 基本 | jī běn | basic; fundamental |
| 版本 | bǎn běn | version; edition |
| 资本 (資本) | zī běn | capital (economics) |
| 本来 (本來) | běn lái | original; originally |
| 本身 | běn shēn | itself; in itself |
| 媒体 (媒體) | méi tǐ | media, esp. news media |
| 身体 (身體) | shēn tǐ | the body; one's health |
See also: Japanese symbol for “torso”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.