転んでひざの皮がむけた。
I fell and scraped the skin off my knee.
この太鼓は動物の皮で作られている。
This drum is made with animal hide.
Used for the outer layer of fruit, vegetables, nuts, trees, and similar natural objects: a peel, rind, husk, or bark depending on the item.
みかんの皮をむいて食べた。
I peeled the mandarin and ate it.
古い木の皮がはがれている。
The bark of the old tree is peeling off.
outer covering; casing; wrapper; sheath
Covers flexible or enclosing outer layers that are not literally skin, such as a food wrapper, casing, sheath, or protective covering.
餃子の皮を買ってきてください。
Please buy some dumpling wrappers.
電線の皮をむくと中の銅線が見える。
If you strip the covering off the wire, you can see the copper wire inside.
mask; false appearance; seeming
Figurative use, especially in the idiom 化けの皮がはがれる, meaning that someone's disguise, pretense, or true nature is exposed.
See also: 化けの皮
彼の化けの皮がついにはがれた。
His true colors were finally revealed.
This mandarin has thick skin and is hard to peel.
The skin on my sunburned shoulders started peeling.
I wrapped the filling in spring roll wrappers and fried it.
皮 (かわ) means 'skin' or 'peel', while 側 is usually read がわ and means 'side'; the rare かわ reading of 側 can cause confusion with 皮.
川 (river) and 皮 (skin, peel) are pronounced identically but refer to completely unrelated things, distinguished only by kanji and context.
皮 refers to raw, unprocessed skin or peel, while 皮革 specifically means leather that has been tanned and processed for use.
皮 usually refers to the skin or peel of animals, fruits, or objects, while 皮膚 is reserved for human (or animal) skin as a living organ.
皮 is a general word for skin, peel, or rind, while 毛皮 specifically denotes an animal's fur-covered pelt.
outer layer; skin; bark; rind; crust; film; scum · epithelium
thin skin; thin membrane; thin outer layer
thread-sail filefish · skinning; stripping bark; skinner; barker
over-optimistic calculation; counting one's chickens before they're hatched
rawhide
eta; lowly people (Edo period)
outer layer; veneer; one skin
thick hide; shamelessness
thin inner membrane of a bamboo shoot tip
pick-guard; protective patch
cedar bark
astringent inner skin of a chestnut
protective cover on a clog
cuticle; nail cuticle · endocarp
leather goods