本体 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 本體 běntǐ ㄅㄣˇ ㄊㄧˇ main part torso the thing in itself noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant) Character by character 本(běn)root 体(tǐ)body A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0