漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
膚: skin, body
Also: grain, texture, disposition
JLPT N215 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 虍(meaning)
- 胃stomach(form)
虍 carries the meaning · 胃 is drawn in
15 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Today
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
フfu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 皮膚ひふskin
- 皮膚科ひふかdermatology
- 皮膚病ひふびょうskin disease
Also read はだ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“It looks like the moon, but it's actually muscle! When you see this "moon" on the left side of a character, don't think of the night sky—think of your own body.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
虍
Also built on 虍
In ChineseSimplified 肤 · traditional, as in Japanese · fū
Japan keeps the traditional form 膚; mainland China simplifies it to 肤.
- Simplified
- 肤 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 膚 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fū 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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