Learn all the Body Parts in Chinese with Audio & Example Sentences

Identifying and naming your body parts in Chinese can come in handy when seeing the doctor, playing sports, going clothes shopping, and much more!

So with that being said, let’s learn how to talk about body parts in Chinese.

We’ll tell you how to say everything from head Play 头 (tóu) to toe Play 脚趾 (jiǎo zhǐ) and provide you with audio examples and downloadable graphics to help you practice.

Let’s get started!

Body Parts in Chinese || General Body Parts

Body Parts in Chinese || Head and Face

Body Parts in Chinese || Upper Body

Body Parts in Chinese || Hands

Body Parts in Chinese || Internal Organs

Body Parts in Chinese || Lower Body

BONUS || FREE Quiz

Body Parts in Chinese || FAQs

Body Parts in Chinese – General Body 身体 (shēntǐ)

The whole body in Chinese is called 身体 (shēntǐ), but what about the single parts of it?

Let’s make a few example sentences using these words for you also:

Body Parts in Chinese – Head and face – 头脸 (tóuliǎn)

Let’s start with the top. Here is some useful vocabulary for talking about the head and the face…

When applying these words be sure to check out our post on basic grammar structures in Chinese so you can apply the adjective to the body part correctly 🙂

Here are some example sentences for you with some of those facial features.

Body Parts in Chinese – Upper Body 上半身 (shàngbànshēn)

Now let’s talk about the upper body parts in Chinese: here below you’ll find a list of words that compose the trunk:

Now for some potentially useful sentences involving those body parts in Chinese!

Body Parts in Chinese – Hands 手 (shǒu)

Hands play an important function in body language and sign language, so let’s be more specific and learn this wordlist of the parts of a hand:

Keeping in theme, let’s add some context to these words by adding in some sentences you might find useful:

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Body Parts in Chinese – Internal organs – 脏腑 (zàngfǔ)

Imagine seeing a doctor in China and not knowing the words of the internal organs.

Not so easy to get your point across without the usage of body language!

The list of vocabulary below might come handy in these kind of situations:

… and some sentences with those words in action

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Body Parts in Chinese || Lower Body 下半身 (xiàbànshēn)

Finally, let’s work our way down through the lower body parts in Chinese:

And finally, some sentences to match:

Body Parts || FREE QUIZ

Think you know your head from your hips or your elbows from your ears?

Well it’s time to put that to the test with our FREE Body Parts Quiz in Chinese…!

Time's up

Fancy learning how to say the body parts of other languages? You’re in luck because we’ve also published a post on the body parts in Russian too. Check it out 😎

Body Parts in Chinese || FAQs

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