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old variant of 體|体[tǐ]
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軆 is an archaic variant of 體 (tǐ), meaning human body, physical form, or system. It combines the semantic radical 車 (chē) 'cart, carriage' on the left with the phonetic component 豊 (lǐ) 'ritual vessel' on the right. The cart radical likely reflects a metaphor of the body as a vehicle or framework that carries the self. The standard traditional form 體 uses the bone radical 骨 (gǔ) to directly indicate physical anatomy, while the simplified 体 combines the human radical 亻 (rén) and 本 (běn) to suggest the body as the person's root.
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