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一身 (いっしん, isshin) Japanese meaning: oneself | Kotomora
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He devoted his whole self to the project.
I am prepared to take full responsibility upon myself.
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 を 一いっ 身しん に 負お う to take on something (a duty, responsibility) entirely by oneself
The president bears the entire responsibility for the company himself.
〈 事こと 〉 を 一いっ 身しん に 受う ける to be the sole recipient of something (criticism, praise, etc.)
He alone bore all the public criticism.
一いっ 身しん を 〈 事こと 〉 に 捧ささ げる to devote one's whole self to something
She devoted her whole being to her research.
Kanji 身 somebody, person, one's station in life Related words 自分 is the everyday, neutral word for 'oneself', while 一身 is a formal, literary term emphasizing the whole of one's person or being.
自身 is normally attached after a noun or pronoun as a suffix (彼自身 'he himself'), whereas 一身 stands alone as a noun meaning one's entire self or body.
自己 is a formal, often academic term for 'the self' used in compounds like 自己満足, while 一身 stresses the totality of one's own person, especially in phrases about bearing something alone.
Don't confuse with 全身 literally means 'the whole body' in a physical sense, while 一身 refers more abstractly to one's whole self or being, often in the context of responsibility or fate.
一身 (same pronunciation) means one's own person or self, whereas 一心 refers to a shared or wholehearted state of mind.
Etymology Compound of 一 (いち, 'one') and 身 (しん, 'body, self'). The reading いっしん results from the assimilation of ち to っ before し. The word literally means 'one body' and has been used since classical Japanese to refer to one's entire self.
