一身

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	body; torso; person body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (一身)		一	身
simp. #(一身)		一	身

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ san¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yit-sṳ̂n
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): it-sin / chi̍t-sin
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): i⁶ shen¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīshēn [Phonetic: yìshēn]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yishen
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-shên¹
    • Yale: yī-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ishen
    • Palladius: ишэнь (išɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jat¹ san¹
    • Yale: yāt sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ sɐn⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 一新 一身

• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-sṳ̂n
    • Hakka Romanization System: id^ˋ siin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ sin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚² sɨn²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yit-sṳ̂n
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)id^ˋ siin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁵ sin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚² sɨn²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: it-sin
    • Tâi-lô: it-sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: itsyn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /it̚³²⁻⁴ sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /it̚³²⁻⁵ sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /it̚⁵⁻²⁴ sin³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chi̍t-sin
    • Tâi-lô: tsi̍t-sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cidsyn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sit̚²⁴⁻² sin³³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: i⁶ shen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (old-style): /i²⁴ ʂən³³/
    • Sinological IPA ^(key) (new-style): /i²⁴ sən³³/

Noun

一身

1. whole body; all over the body

   • 先主明旦自來至雲營圍視昨戰處，曰：「子龍一身都是膽也。」 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     先主明旦自来至云营围视昨战处，曰：「子龙一身都是胆也。」 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Pei Songzhi, Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms, circa 5^th century CE

     Xiānzhǔ míngdàn zì lái zhì Yún yíng wéi shì zuó zhàn chù, yuē: “Zǐlóng yīshēn dōu shì dǎn yě.” [Pinyin]

     The next day, the Former Master himself came to [Zhao] Yun's camp and surveyed the battlefield from the day before; he said: "Zilong is truly courage all over."

2. (literary) suit
3. (literary) single person

Synonyms

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• 全身 (quánshēn)
• 周身 (zhōushēn)
• 完身 (Hakka)
• 完身仔 (Hakka)
• 成身 (seng⁴ san¹) (Cantonese)
• 混身
• 渾身 / 浑身 (húnshēn)
• 滿身 / 满身 (mǎnshēn)
• 規身 / 规身 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 規身軀 / 规身躯 (Hokkien)
• 通身 (tōngshēn)

Derived terms

• 一身兩役 / 一身两役 (yīshēnliǎngyì)
• 一身是膽 / 一身是胆 (yīshēnshìdǎn)
• 孑然一身 (jiérányīshēn)

Japanese

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一身

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Kanji in this term
一	身
いつ > いっ Grade: 1	しん Grade: 3
on'yomi

Noun

一(いっ)身(しん) • (isshin) 

1. the own person, oneself