个体
Meaning
- an individual
- self-employed individual; small business operator (abbr. for 个体户)
Example sentence
我去做了个体检。
I went and got a body check-up.
Characters in 个体
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
- 体 tǐ body; form, system
个 an individual plus 体, a body. 体 is the body in 身体, the concrete in 具体 and the whole in 整体 — one of the most productive characters in abstract vocabulary.