漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
皮: pelt, skin
Also: hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)
JLPT N25 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
5 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ヒhi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 皮膚ひふskin [n.]
- 皮肉ひにくcynicism, sarcasm, irony, satire
- 皮相ひそうsuperficial
- 皮下注射ひかちゅうしゃhypodermic injection
- 樹皮じゅひbark
- 脱皮するだっぴするmolt, shed, emerge
かわkawa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 皮かわskin, hide, leather, fur, pelt, bark
- 毛皮けがわfur, skin, pelt
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A hand (又) stripping the fur from an animal pelt (similar to 革). The pelt moved to the top left and became abstracted.
Source: Wiktionary, 皮 (rev. 93363725), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The base kanji for the outer protective covering of any living thing, from a human being to a fruit or a tree.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
皮 gives its sound to
The family reading is ヒ (hi). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pí
Same form: 皮 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 皮 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 皮 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin pí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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