Characters

• 身 (身): body; life; oneself; personally; one's morality and conduct; the main part of a structure or body; pregnant; classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset; Kangxi radical 158
• 不 (不): no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 由 (由): to follow; from; because of; due to; by; via; through; (before a noun and a verb) it is for ... to ...
• 己 (己): self; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; sixth in order; letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; hexa

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• Wiktionary: 身不由己
• MDBG: 身不由己
• Examples with 身不由己 on Tatoeba

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