身
み · mi · JLPT N3 · noun
main part
🧍 み sounds like me: your body is the main part of me
身 began as a drawing of a person seen from the side with a round belly, often read as a pregnant woman. In Japanese み also means oneself, as in 身をもって, by experiencing it yourself. So み is me: the body, and the core of a thing.
身 — pictograph of a pregnant body
身 is a pictograph originally depicting a person with a swollen belly, representing a pregnant woman in profile. Over time the meaning broadened from 'pregnancy' or 'torso' to refer to the body in general, and by extension oneself or one's person.