死体
したい · shitai · JLPT N2 · noun
cadaver
💀 死 (death) + 体 (body) = 死体: a dead body, a corpse
死 — 歹 (bare bones) + 匕 (kneeling person)
Originally a pictograph showing a living person (匕) beside skeletal remains (歹), depicting someone mourning or kneeling next to a corpse. The combination came to mean 'death' or 'to die.' The 歹 component, derived from a bone fragment, signals the death-related meaning across many related characters.