皮
Tap the pinyin to hear it
skin; peel; rind; outer layer; leather; hide; fur; cover; wrapping; outer covering; (of food) no longer crisp; soggy; (coll.) naughty; mischievous; pico- (10⁻¹²)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 皮 itself
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 皮
- Common rank
- #186
- Unicode
- U+76AE
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 皮 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A hand using a tool 攴 to strip the hide from a carcass
Components 攴
? unknown part
How to remember it
covering · Heisig RSH #707
branch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 皮
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮山县 | Pishan, a county in Hotan City 和田市[He2 tian2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 皮特拉克 | Petrarch; Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonne… | |
| 皮克斯 | Pixar Animation Studios | |
| 南皮县 | Nanpi, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 眼皮子 | eyelid | |
| 皮子 | skin; fur | |
| 皮山 | see 皮山縣|皮山县[Pi2 shan1 Xian4] | |
| 头皮 | scalp | |
| 重眼皮儿 | double eyelid; epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people) | |
| 生皮 | pelt; raw hide | |
| 地皮 | lot; section of land; ground | |
| 皮儿 | wrapper; cover | |
| 皮尔 | Pierre, capital of South Dakota | |
| 拉皮 | to have a facelift; facelift | |
| 上皮 | (anatomy) epithelium; epithelial tissue | |
| 动嘴皮子 | see 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] | |
| 西皮 | one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera; see also 二黃|二黄[er4 huang2] | |
| 书皮儿 | erhua variant of 書皮|书皮[shu1 pi2] | |
| 动嘴皮儿 | erhua variant of 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] | |
| 皮面 | outer skin; surface; leather cover (of a book); drum skin; leather upper (of a shoe) |
Sound family
These characters use 皮 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮 sound part | skin, hide, fur, feathers | |
| 波 | waves, ripples, breakers; undulations | |
| 破 | to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy | |
| 被 | bedding; a passive particle meaning "by" | |
| 坡 | slope, hillside, embankment | |
| 彼 | that, those, the other | |
| 玻 | glass | |
| 疲 | weak, tired, exhausted | |
| 颇 | rather, quite; partial, biased | |
| 陂 | dam, embankment; reservoir | |
| 簸 | dustpan; to winnow, to toss | |
| 跛 | lame | |
| 帔 | cape, robe, skirt | |
| 铍 | beryllium |