Whole body in Chinese
the whole body · HSK 4
全身
- 全 whole
- 身 body
我淋了雨，全身都湿了。 I got caught in the rain and I'm soaked all over.
Other ways to say whole body
More words with 全 or 身
How do you say whole body in Chinese?
Whole body in Chinese is 全身 (quán shēn). You can also say 一身 (yī shēn).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.