死体 (したい) Japanese meaning

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Kanji

遺い体たいN1
遺体 is the respectful term used for a person's remains, while 死体 is a more direct, sometimes blunt word for a corpse.
死し骸がい
死骸 is typically used for the carcass of an animal or insect, whereas 死体 is the general word usable for people or animals alike.
屍しかばね
屍 is a literary, dramatic word for a corpse, while 死体 is the plain, everyday term.
異い物ぶつ
死体 is the plain, everyday word for a corpse, while 異物 in this sense is an old literary term for a dead body no longer used in normal speech.

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死し人にんN1
死体 refers directly to the physical corpse, while 死人 emphasizes the deceased person rather than the body itself.
亡骸なきがらN1
死体 is the neutral, clinical word for a corpse (e.g. in crime or forensic contexts), whereas 亡骸 is softer and more reverent.

生せい体たい
死体 is a dead body, the direct opposite of 生体, which refers to a living, functioning body.

死し者しゃN1
死者 refers to the deceased person in an abstract or statistical sense (e.g. casualty counts), while 死体 refers to the physical corpse itself.
死しに体たい
死体 means a literal 'dead body' and is written almost identically to 死に体, but 死に体 is a figurative sumo/political term for a hopeless or powerless position, not an actual corpse.

死し体たいUsage94%
Standard and common spelling for a dead body or corpse.
屍し体たいUsage6%
rarely-used kanji form
Rare kanji variant given; 死体 is the normal modern spelling.

A transparent Sino-Japanese compound of 死, meaning death, and 体, meaning body. The historical details are not needed to understand the modern word.