HSK 6 · Body

尸体 shītǐ “corpse” in Chinese

Traditional 屍體

What 尸体 means

  1. corpse
  2. dead body

How to say 尸体

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale尸shī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale体tǐ3rd tone, dipping

尸体 in a sentence

  1. 他们发现了一具长颈鹿的尸体。

    Tāmen fāxiàn le yí jù chángjǐnglù de shītǐ.

    They found the carcass of a giraffe.

    Sentence #10713944 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 尸体 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 尸 (shī) drawn as one shape
尸shīperson representing the deceased

尸 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

The character 体 (tǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
体tǐbody
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 本root · běn

Memory aidA person 亻 and a root 本: the body.

How to write 尸体

尸 3 strokes · 体 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

尸体 (shītǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 尸体 (shītǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 尸体

Words with 体

身体shēntǐ · body体育tǐyù · physical training体育馆tǐyùguǎn · gymnasium体会tǐhuì · to know from experience体贴tǐtiē · considerate (of other people’s needs)体现tǐxiàn · to embody体验tǐyàn · to experience for oneself具体jùtǐ · specific集体jítǐ · collective (decision)媒体méitǐ · media

More words: People, Body & Health

呻吟shēnyín · to groan舌头shétou · tongue视力shìlì · eyesight逝世shìshì · to pass away视线shìxiàn · line of sight手势shǒushì · gesture衰老shuāilǎo · to grow old死亡sǐwáng · death

FAQs

尸体 (shītǐ) means “corpse” or “dead body”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it shītǐ: shī with a 1st tone, then tǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 尸体 is written 屍體. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shiti with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 尸体 from the suggestions. Typing shiti into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
尸体 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.