肌膚

See also: 肌肤

Chinese

		flesh; muscle	skin
trad. (肌膚)		肌	膚
simp. (肌肤)		肌	肤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīfū

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ ㄈㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ fu¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ki-hu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīfū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄈㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jifu
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹-fu¹
    • Yale: jī-fū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jifu
    • Palladius: цзифу (czifu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ fu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹ fu¹
    • Yale: gēi fū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ fu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵ fuː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki-hu
    • Tâi-lô: ki-hu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ki'hw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³ hu³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴⁻²² hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴⁻³³ hu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴⁻³³ hu⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kjij pju

Rime
Character	肌	膚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居夷切	甫無切
Baxter	kjij	pju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪ/	/pɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/ki/	/pio/
Shao Rongfen	/kjɪ/	/pio/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ki/	/puə̆/
Li Rong	/ki/	/pio/
Wang Li	/ki/	/pĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki/	/pi̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	fū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gei1	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*krə[j]  pra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kril  pla/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肌	膚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī	fū
Middle Chinese	‹ kij ›	‹ pju ›
Old Chinese	/*krə[j]/	/*pra/
English	flesh	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	肌	膚
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	5756	5275
Phonetic component	几	虍
Rime group	脂	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	飢	跗
Old Chinese	/*kril/	/*pla/

Noun

肌膚

1. (literally) human skin and muscle; skin
2. (figuratively) close physical relationship

Derived terms

• 肌膚之愛／肌肤之爱
• 肌膚之親／肌肤之亲 (jīfūzhīqīn)