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Japanese
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| 五體 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation
Noun
五体 • (gotai)
- the five parts of a body that are said to make it whole
- Meronyms: 足 (ashi, “legs”), 頭 (atama, “head”), 頸 (kubi, “neck”), 手 (te, “arms”), 胸 (mune, “torso”)
- (Buddhism) Meronyms: 頭, 両足 (ryōashi, “both arms”), 両手 (ryōte, “both legs”)
- (traditional Chinese medicine) Meronyms: 筋 (kin, “tendons”), 骨 (kotsu, “bones”), 肉 (niku, “flesh”), 脈 (myaku, “blood vessels”), 毛皮 (mōhi, “skin”)
- (calligraphy, typography) the five principal East Asian calligraphic/typographic styles of Chinese origin
- Meronyms: 行書 (gyōsho, “semicursive”), 真書 (shinsho, “regular”), 草書 (sōsho, “cursive”), 篆書 (tensho, “seal”), 隷書 (reisho, “clerical”)
- Meronyms: 古文 (kobun, “ancient”), 小篆 (shōten, “small seal”), 大篆 (daiten, “large seal”), 八分 (happun, “bafen”), 隷書
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