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躬身

gōng shēn

2-character word

What 躬身 means

1. to bow
2. personally

The characters in 躬身

• 躬gōng(literary) body (of a human, esp. the torso); (bound form) to bow; (literary) oneself…
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself

Sounds the same

Read gōng shēn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 弓身to bend the body at the waist; to bow

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