Learn a character a day with Mandarin Blueprint right here at Shanghaiist! 体- tǐ- body, system, form, state I like the character 体 right off the bat, because its visual meaning is very clear. The left side of the character 亻has the meaning of “person”, and the right side is the character we talked about in a previous article 本 that means “origin” or “basis”. So the “base” for a “human” is their body. Quite…