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尸体

shī tǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 屍體

尸体 (shī tǐ) means "dead body; corpse; carcass". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 尸体 means

1. corpse; dead body

The characters in 尸体

• 尸shī(literary) person representing the deceased (during burial ceremonies)…
• 体tǐbody; form; style

Example sentences

• 后备箱内有具尸体。
  There's a body in the trunk of the car.
• 这就是发现尸体的房间。
  Zhè jiù shì fāxiàn shītǐ de fángjiān.
  This is the room where the body was found.
• 每个人都可能变成尸体。
  Every man is a potential corpse.
• 汤姆在海边发现了具尸体。
  Tāngmǔ zài hǎibiān fāxiàn le jù shītǐ.
  Tom found a dead body on the beach.
• 他们发现了一具长颈鹿的尸体。
  They found a giraffe carcass.
• 那个男人的尸体至今仍未被找到。
  The body of that man still hasn't been found.

Words starting with 尸体

• 尸体袋shī tǐ dàibody bag
• 尸体剖检shī tǐ pōu jiǎnautopsy
• 尸体解剖shī tǐ jiě pōuautopsy; postmortem

Sounds the same

Read shī tǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 诗体poetic form or genre

Where 尸体 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shèng–shí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shī tǐ correctly.
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