皮

皮 U+76AE, 皮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76AE ← 皭 [U+76AD] CJK Unified Ideographs 皯 → [U+76AF]

⽪ U+2F6A, ⽪ KANGXI RADICAL SKIN ← ⽩ [U+2F69] Kangxi Radicals ⽫ → [U+2F6B]

Stroke order

Stroke order

皮 (Kangxi radical 107, 皮+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水 (DHE), four-corner 4024₇, composition ⿻⿱丨又⿰丿乛)

1. Kangxi radical #107, ⽪.

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

• 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

simp. and trad.		皮

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.

The character 叚 is similar, but actually it depicts two hands and some rocks 石 on oracle bones; a conservative variant is 𠭊.

“skin”

According to STEDT, 皮 (OC *m-pra-j) is likely derived from root 膚 (OC *pra) – further from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p(r/j)a (“skin”) – and a voicing prefix – likely *m- which is found in several OC words for body parts like 鼻 (OC *m-bi[t]-s, “nose”), 肚 (OC *m-tˤaʔ, “belly”), 右 (OC *[ɢ]ʷəʔ-s (~ *m-qʷəʔ), “right-hand”) and 頭 (OC *[m-t]ˤo, “head”) (Baxter & Sagart, 2014).

“pico-”

Borrowed from English pico-.

皮

1. skin; peel; shell; rind (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 層／层 m c)

   甩皮 [Cantonese]  ―  lat¹ pei⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to have flaky skin; to have peeling skin

   樹皮／树皮  ―  shùpí  ―  bark

   香蕉皮  ―  xiāngjiāo pí  ―  banana peel

   • 牛則有皮，犀兕尚多。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     牛则有皮，犀兕尚多。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Niú zé yǒu pí, xīsì shàng duō. [Pinyin]

     Bulls still have skins; rhinoceroses and wild bulls still are many.

   • 誰家老-馬棄城-陰，毛-暗皮-乾瘦不-禁。 [Vietnamese Literary Sinitic, trad.]

     From: 阮攸 (Nguyễn Du),〈城下棄馬〉(Thành hạ khí mã, "The Abandoned Horse at the Wall's Bottom") in 《南中雜吟》(Nam trung tạp ngâm "Assorted Recitations while in the South"), 1805-1812

     Thùy gia lão mã khí thành âm, mao ám bì can sấu bất câm. [Sino-Vietnamese]

     Someone's old horse is abandoned under the wall's shadow; he is gaunt, his hair darkened, his skin parched, beyond bearing.

2. hide; leather

   皮鞋  ―  píxié  ―  leather shoes

   • 牛皮為鼓，正三軍之眾。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     牛皮为鼓，正三军之众。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Huainanzi, 2^nd century BCE

     Niúpí wéi gǔ, zhèng sānjūn zhī zhòng. [Pinyin]

     The hide of an ox made into a drum directs the multitudes of the Three Armies.

3. wrapper; cover; skin

   餃子皮／饺子皮  ―  jiǎozi pí  ―  jiaozi wrapper

   書皮／书皮  ―  shūpí  ―  book cover

4. surface; top part

   水皮  ―  shuǐpí  ―  water surface

5. rubber

   皮筋  ―  píjīn  ―  rubber band

6. thin sheet; broad, flat piece (of some thin material)

   鐵皮／铁皮  ―  tiěpí  ―  iron sheet

7. soggy; no longer crispy due to moisture

   花生好像變皮了，吃起來沒那麼香了。 [MSC, trad.]
   花生好像变皮了，吃起来没那么香了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Huāshēng hǎoxiàng biàn pí le, chī qǐlái méi nàme xiāng le. [Pinyin]

   The peanuts seem to have become soggy, so they don't taste as good.

8. naughty; disobedient

   調皮／调皮  ―  tiáopí  ―  naughty; mischievous

   這些孩子太皮了。 [MSC, trad.]
   这些孩子太皮了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhèxiē háizǐ tài pí le. [Pinyin]

   These children are too naughty.

   這個囡仔傷過皮。 [Hokkien, trad.]
   这个囡仔伤过皮。 [Hokkien, simp.]

   Chit-ê gín-á siong-kè phî. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   These children are too naughty.

9. feeling indifferent due to excessive reprimands or chastisements; thick-skinned; callous

   他早就被媽媽罵皮了。 [MSC, trad.]
   他早就被妈妈骂皮了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā zǎojiù bèi māmā mà pí le. [Pinyin]

   He has long been scolded by his mother to not caring anymore.

10. pico- (SI unit prefix)

    皮米  ―  pímǐ  ―  picometre

11. sticky; glutinous; tenacious

    皮糖  ―  pítáng  ―  sticky candy

12. brazen; cheeky; shameless; impudent

    皮皮 [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  phî-phî [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  shameless

13. outer; superficial
14. (Harbin Mandarin) face
15. (Cantonese) side; edge

    海皮 [Cantonese]  ―  hoi² pei⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  seaside

16. (Cantonese, colloquial) Classifier for money: yuan; dollar; buck

    廿幾皮／廿几皮 [Cantonese]  ―  jaa⁶ gei² pei⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  over twenty dollars

    • 1963, 莫康時, director, 工廠皇后 [Three Love Affairs]‎^[1], spoken by 劉月桂 (林艷 [Lam Yim]):

      噉我磅返廿皮畀你先吖。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

      gam² ngo⁵ bong⁶ faan¹ jaa⁶ pei⁴ bei² nei⁵ sin¹ aa¹. [Jyutping]

      Then, I'll pay you 20 bucks back first.

17. (Cantonese, colloquial) Classifier for ten thousand dollars.

    Coordinate term: 水 (seoi²)

    三皮 [Cantonese]  ―  saam¹ pei⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  thirty thousand dollars

    皮幾嘢／皮几嘢 [Cantonese]  ―  pei⁴ gei² je⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  ten thousand dollars and change

18. (Cantonese, colloquial) Classifier for size of implements, articles, etc..
19. (Mainland China Hokkien) to act shamelessly; to act impudently; to be brazen
20. (Guiyang Mandarin) Classifier for clothes.
21. (Huizhou) Classifier for walls.
22. (VTuber fandom slang) model
23. a surname

皮

1. (Cantonese) short for 皮費／皮费 (“operation expense”)

SI prefix
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納/奈 / 纳/奈	皮	飛 / 飞 (fēi)

• “皮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “皮”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
• “皮”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “皮”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 158.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

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

Kanji in this term
皮
かわ Grade: 3
kun'yomi

/kapa/ → /kaɸa/ → /kawa/.

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kapa.

• (Tokyo) かわ [kàwáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ka̠β̞a̠]

皮(かわ) • (kawa) ^{←かは (kafa)?}

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

     皮 釋名云、皮. 音疲、加波

     Skin. The explanation says "skin; the Chinese reading is like that of 疲 (MC bje); the Japanese reading is kafa".

• 革(かわ) (kawa): leather

• “皮”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938), Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.

From Middle Chinese 皮 (MC bje). Recorded as Middle Korean 피 (phi) (Yale: phi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

皮 (eumhun 가죽 피 (gajuk pi))

1. hanja form^? of 피 (“skin”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [4]

皮: Hán Việt readings: bì^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}
皮: Nôm readings: bề^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}, vừa^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}, bì^{[1][2][3][5][6][7]}, bè^[1][2][7], bìa^[3][7], bờ^[1], bừa^[1], da^[1], phì^[1], về^[1], vờ^[1], bầy^[3], vào^[3]

1. chữ Hán form of bì (“skin (as food); envelope”)
2. chữ Nôm form of bề
   1. side; surface
   2. rank; social standing
3. chữ Nôm form of bì (“to be matchable; to be comparable”)
4. chữ Nôm form of bờ (“side, bank”)
5. chữ Nôm form of bừa (“rake; harrow”)
6. chữ Nôm form of da (“skin”)
7. chữ Nôm form of phì (“to eject, to erupt, to burst out”)
8. chữ Nôm form of về (“used in vụng về (“clumsy”)”)
9. chữ Nôm form of vừa
   1. to fit, to suit
   2. just, recently, at this moment