noun
embodiment; incarnation; personification
Refers to a person who embodies an abstract quality, ideal, or concept. Often used in the pattern ...の体現者.
彼はまさに努力の体現者だ。
He is truly the embodiment of hard work.
彼女は優しさの体現者として知られている。
She is known as the personification of kindness.
化身 often implies a supernatural or divine incarnation, whereas 体現者 is more commonly used for human embodiments of abstract qualities.
Compound of 体現 (たいげん, 'embodiment') + 者 (しゃ, 'person'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word follows a common pattern for forming agent nouns.