皮

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a hand 又 stripping the fur from an animal pelt (similar to 革). Pelt moved to top left and became abstracted.

皮
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

皮 (radical 107 皮+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水 (DHE), four-corner 4024₇)

1. skin, hide, fur, leather
2. outer
3. The SI unit prefix pico
4. bark
5. pericarp
6. cortex
7. epidermis

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/皮
• 佊 詖 (诐) 陂 坡 披 岥 帔 彼 狓 波 怶 玻 柀 破 鈹 (铍) 秛 被 耚 蚾 翍 紴 跛 貱 鮍 (鲏) 鞁 骳 駊 (𫘟) 麬 㓟 頗 (颇) 髲 疲 旇

References

• KangXi: page 790, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22823
• Dae Jaweon: page 1205, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+76AE

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		皮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pí (pi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): pei⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): phî
• Min Nan (POJ): phuê / phê / pî / phî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pí
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pyi
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰi³⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: pei⁴
    • Yale: pèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: pei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰei̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phî
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pʰi²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phuê / phê / pî / phî
    • Tâi-lô: phuê / phê / pî / phî
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰue²³/, /pʰe²³/, /pi²³/, /pʰi²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pʰue¹³/, /pʰe¹³/, /pi¹³/, /pʰi¹³/
  • Note: phuê, phê, pî - vernacular, phî - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (皮, reconstructed)
Character (皮), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 符羈切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/biᴇ/	/bʱie̯/	/bie/	/biɛ/	/biə̆/	/bǐe/	/bjɛ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (皮, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
皮								pí								‹ bje ›								/*m-[p](r)aj/								skin
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
皮					9711					皮					歌					1					皮					/*bral/

Compounds

• 桂皮
• 丹皮
• 粉丹皮
• 陈皮 (chénpí)
• 石榴皮 (shíliúpí)
• 川种皮
• 海桐皮
• 桑白皮 (sāngbáipí)
• 大腹皮 (dàfùpí)
• 苦木皮
• 地骨皮 (dìgǔpí)
• 头皮屑 (tóupíxiè)
• 皮蛋

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Etymology

kapa → kaɸa → kawa.

Noun

皮 (hiragana かわ, romaji kawa, historical hiragana かは)

1. skin
   • 931-938, Wamyō Ruijushō (book 2 page 33)

     皮 釋名云、皮. 音疲、加波

Kanji

皮

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひ (hi)
• Kun: かわ (kawa)

Compounds

• 皮膚 (ひふ, hifu, “skin”)
• 皮膚科 (ひふか, hifuka, “dermatologist”)

References

• 1968 May 2 [931-938], Shitagō Minamoto; Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu, Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, ISBN 4-653-00507-9:

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Korean

Hanja

皮 (pi) (hangeul 피, revised pi, McCune-Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皮 (bì, bề, vừa, bầy, bìa, vào)

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