Amazing Chinese Characters (467) Body - 体（體）

 The bronze script of character Body is

The left is a form of body, the right is character Harvest and Abundance (Post 317), which means, the body is formed or produced by foods.

There is another character Body (Post 97)

The dot is an indicator, which is the most important point the character wants to say. Here is the belly. The above character originally means the belly of the body. But right now it means body. The difference of the two is very subtle. One is more emphasizing the trunk: the belly and the chest, another is more on the whole body including the legs, arms, head. 

The big seal script of the character is 

The left is character Bone (Post 458), the right is character Harvest and Abundance (Post 317). A body with bones is supported by abundance foods.

The small seal script of the character is

Similar to the big seal script.

The clerical script of the character is

Similar to older scripts.

The traditional song typeface of the character is

體

Same as clerical script.

The simplified song typeface of the character is

体

Which is from nowhere. The left is radical Person, the right is character Root (Post 78).  It has nothing to do with the older scripts, or the traditional song typeface. I can only guess that the character means "A person's root" = "A person's body", which changes to ideogram character, not pictographic character.

The Pinyin of the character is Ti3.

Because character 身，and character 体, both means Body with very subtle difference, so people use 身体 （combination of the two characters) as a word-form to mean Body. There are many this kind words formed by two characters with very similar meaning, to avoid any confusion.