皮

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #107, ⽪.

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		皮

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 皮
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
陂	*pral, *prals
詖	*pral, *prals
彼	*pralʔ
柀	*pralʔ
佊	*pralʔ, *prals
貱	*prals
跛	*prals, *paːlʔ
披	*pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹	*pʰral
帔	*pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍	*pʰral
耚	*pʰral
狓	*pʰral
翍	*pʰral
旇	*pʰral, *brals
秛	*pʰral, *pʰrals
紴	*pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮	*bral
疲	*bral
被	*bralʔ, *brals
髲	*brals
鞁	*brals
骳	*mbralʔ
波	*paːl
碆	*paːl, *baːl
菠	*paːl
簸	*paːlʔ, *paːls
駊	*paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗	*pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡	*pʰaːl
玻	*pʰaːl
破	*pʰaːls
婆	*baːl
蔢	*baːl

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.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 皮

1. skin; hide; fur; leather
2. peel; shell
3. bark; rind
4. wrapper; cover; skin
5. surface; top part
6. rubber
7. thin sheet
8. outer; superficial
9. sticky; glutinous
10. soggy; non-crispy
11. naughty; disobedient
12. thick-skinned
13. (loanword) pico- (SI unit prefix)
14. (Cantonese, colloquial) ten hundred dollars

Compounds

See also

SI prefix
Last		Next
納/奈／纳/奈	皮	飛／飞 (fēi)

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Japanese

Kanji

皮

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: び (bi)
• Kan-on: ひ (hi, Jōyō)
• Kun: かわ (kawa, 皮, Jōyō)^{←かは (kafa, 皮, historical)}

Compounds

• 皮膚(ひふ) (hifu): skin
• 皮膚科(ひふか) (hifuka): dermatologist

Etymology

kapa → kaɸa → kawa.

Noun

皮(かわ) • (kawa) ^{←かは (kafa)?}

1. skin
   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 2, page 33:

   皮(かわ)釋名云(しゃくみょう云)、皮(かわ). 音疲(おと疲)、加波(かは)。

   Kawa shakumyō 云, kawa oto 疲, kaha .

   .

   千匹(せんびき)皮(がわ)

   senbikigawa

   (please add an English translation of this example)

Related terms

• 革(かわ) (kawa): leather

References

• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938) Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

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Korean

Hanja

皮 (eumhun 가죽 피 (gajuk pi))

1. Hanja form^? of 피 (“skin”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 皮 (bì, bề, vừa, bầy, bìa, vào)

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