Meanings
Noun
1. body
2. oneself
3. one's place; one's position
4. main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.); wood (as opposed to bark); blade (as opposed to its handle); container (as opposed to its lid)
Kanji used
one's body
Pitch accent
Top 700
Used in vocabulary (262 in total)
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
Examples (16 in total)
A misfortune befell him.
She adorned herself with jewels.
I wonder what happened to Paul.
Something has happened to Tom.
He was married and settled down.
I wonder if anything happened to him.
An extremely terrible thing happened to him.
When did the accident happen to her?
Something might have happened to her.
What happened to them is still a mystery.
She devoted herself to mission work in Africa.
I can't tell you everything that happened to me yesterday.
Something must have happened to him on the way.
It happened to me about a year ago.
Should anything happen to you, let us know at once.
After years of womanising, Tom finally settled down with Mary.