皮

skin; pelt; hide; leather; skin radical (no. 107)

5 strokes. Taught in grade 3. Newspaper frequency rank 1092.

Readings

• ヒ (on reading): 皮膚 (ひふ) skin; 皮肉 (ひにく) irony
• かわ (kun reading): 皮 (かわ) skin; 皮切り (かわきり) beginning

Components

• 又 radical again; right hand
• 皮 radical skin

Kanji containing 皮

• 被 incur
• 破 rend
• 彼 he
• 波 waves
• 疲 exhausted
• 披 expose
• 坡 dike
• 陂 levee
• 玻 glass
• 皰 pimple
• 皴 wrinkles
• 跛 lame
• 皷 drum
• 皸 skin cracks or roughness
• 皹 skin cracks or roughness
• 鞁 reins
• 頗 prejudiced
• 皺 wrinkles
• 簸 winnow

Words using 皮

• 皮膚 (ひふ) skin
• 皮肉 (ひにく) irony
• 皮膚科 (ひふか) dermatology
• 樹皮 (じゅひ) bark (of a tree, etc.)
• 脱皮 (だっぴ) ecdysis
• 皮 (かわ) skin
• 皮切り (かわきり) beginning
• 毛皮 (けがわ) fur
• 鶏皮 (とりかわ) chicken skin (esp. in cooking)
• 上皮 (うわかわ) outer layer (e.g. of skin)
• 桧皮 (ひわだ) cypress bark
• 檜皮葺き (ひわだぶき) cypress bark roof
• 檜皮色 (ひわだいろ) dusky-red
• 槇皮 (まいはだ) caulking
• 涼皮 (リャンピー) liangpi (cold, noodle-like Chinese dish)

280 words in all.

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