体を張る

Reading

Kana: からだをはる

Romaji: karadawoharu

Definition

exp

v5r

1

to devote oneself wholeheartedly to; to sacrifice one's health for; to risk one's life

Kanji

体

Readings: タイ、 テイ、 からだ、 かたち

Meanings: body, substance, object, reality, counter for images

張

Readings: チョウ、 は.る、 -は.り、 -ば.り

Meanings: lengthen, counter for bows & stringed instruments, stretch, spread, put up (tent)

Example Sentence

ボクが憧(あこが)れたのは翔太(しょうた)部長(ぶちょう)の『力(ちから)』じゃない。体(からだ)を張(は)ってでも信念(しんねん)を貫(つらぬ)こうとする雄々(おお)しい勇気(ゆうき)だったはず。

➥What I looked up to in Shota was not his 'strength'. It was his heroic courage to put his life on the line to carry out his convictions.