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本身

běn shēn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

本身 (běn shēn) means "itself". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 本身 means

1. itself
2. in itself
3. per se

The characters in 本身

• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself

Example sentences

• 设计本身有问题。
  The design itself is flawed.

Words containing 本身

• 它本身tā běn shēnitself

Where 本身 is taught

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

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