also: ぎょたい
Honorific term for someone's body, used in respectful or formal contexts. Archaic in modern Japanese; replaced by お体 (おからだ) in everyday honorific speech.
In classical literature, the body of a noble person is sometimes written as 御体.
Standard kanji spelling for the honorific reading ごたい.
Archaic reading; rarely used in modern Japanese.
Compound of honorific prefix 御 (ご/ぎょ) and 体 (body). The reading ぎょたい is older and now archaic.