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Kanji Detail for 皮 - "skin, leather, surface"

皮

  • Meaning

    皮 means "skin, leather, surface."

    1. Skin - The outer covering of a body.

    2. Leather - Processed animal hide.

    3. Surface - The outer layer.

  • Words using 皮

    • 皮膚 ひふ Listen skin
    • 皮切り かわきり Listen beginning; start
    • 脱皮 だっぴ Listen ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing
    • 皮肉 ひにく Listen irony; sarcasm; cynicism
    • 皮革 ひかく Listen leather; hide
    • 皮膚科 ひふか Listen dermatology

  • Four-character idioms with 皮

    • 皮相浅薄 ひそうせんぱく Listen shallow and unwise; superficial and thoughtless
    • 羊質虎皮 ようしつこひ Listen sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth
    • 草根木皮 そうこんもくひ Listen roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine
    • 虚実皮膜 きょじつひまく Listen the difference between truth and fiction in art being very subtle; art abides in a realm that is neither truth nor fiction

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    • Verified meaning: skin, leather, surface
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ひ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 皮

    Surnames 皮(ひ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

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

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    skin, hide, fur, feather; outer

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Pi

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    skin, hide, fur, feathers

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    What covers the surface of animal and plant bodies to wrap their interiors. The outermost layer of the human body is called epidermis. The inner layer is called dermis. In the center are sebum and pigments of various kinds. Hence there are distinctions of yellow race, white race, etc. | Animal skin with fur is called 皮. Without fur is called 革. Colloquially both are called 皮. | Surface. Such as saying 皮相 (superficial). Meaning only observing the exterior, not seeing the actual substance.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hi(ヒ) ヒ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kawa(かわ) かわ

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    皮 (kegawa・hinokawa)

  • Related Keywords

    skin leather surface drum hide bark casing cortex covering cuticle dermis husk integument layer membrane outer peel pelt rind sheath

Sentences including 皮

  • It's ironic.

  • Beauty is but skin deep.

  • Beauty is but skin deep.

  • The snake shed its skin.

  • Beauty is but skin deep.

  • Don't count your chickens.

  • Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

  • I peeled an apple.

  • My sister shelled the beans.

  • My scalp is very itchy.

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