本体

Traditional form:

本體

Pinyin (reading):

běntǐ

Definitions:

• main part
• torso
• the thing in itself
• noumenon (object of purely intellectual perception according to Kant)

Characters:

• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 体 - body; group, class; form, style, system

Traditional characters:

• 本 - root, origin, source; basis
• 體 - body; group, class; form, style, system