Amazing Chinese Characters (97) Body - 身

The shell bone script for character Body is

 which is a side view of a person with a big belly. It emphasizes the belly, the most important part of our body. It is a pictography character.

Its big seal script is

which is similar to the shell bone script, but there is a dot in the belly, which is a baby in the belly of a pregnant woman.

Actually it is a belly button.
The small seal script is

It is more bent lines, some similarity but less pictography.  It is like a very fitness body.

Its clerical script is

which is even far from original pictography.

Its current standard printing script is

身

same as the clerical script.

Its Pinyin is "Shen1".

The character 身 is for normal body, not pregnant lady's body even thought its big seal script is like the pregnant body. There is a character 孕 (Post 145) is the specific character for pregnant.