皮

Meaning

皮 centers on the outer covering of an animal or object: skin, hide, pelt, or leather. The radical sense is the same skin shape used as a component in other characters.

• 皮かわ
  N3

  skin; hide; pelt; fur

• 皮膚ひふ
  N3

  skin

• 皮肉ひにく
  N2

  irony; sarcasm; cynicism; satire

• 毛皮けがわ
  N2

  fur; skin; pelt

• 頭皮とうひ

  scalp

• 皮切りかわきり

  beginning; start

• 皮田かわた

  lowly people (Edo period); eta

• 脱皮だっぴ

  ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; molting; moulting; casting off

• 表皮ひょうひ

  epidermis; cuticle

• 松皮まつかわ

  barfin flounder (Verasper moseri)

• 皮脂ひし

  sebum; sebaceous matter

• 皮質ひしつ

  cortex

• 樹皮じゅひ

  bark (of a tree, etc.)

• 皮革ひかく

  leather; hide

• 皮下ひか

  subcutaneous; hypodermic

• 上皮うわかわ

  outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; bark; rind; crust; film (on the surface of a liquid); scum

• 皮肉るひにくる

  to make a cynical remark (about); to make a sarcastic remark (about); to satirize; to mock

• 包皮ほうひ

  foreskin; prepuce

• 外皮がいひ

  skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell; crust; rind; envelope; exodermis; pellicle

• 皮膜ひまく

  film; membrane

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