肤
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skin
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 肉 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 膚
- Common rank
- #2,330
- Unicode
- U+80A4
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
skin · Heisig RSH #1977
flesh + 夫 husband
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 肤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮肤病 | skin disease; skin condition; dermatosis | |
| 体无完肤 | lit. cuts and bruises all over (idiom); fig. totally refuted | |
| 皮肤科 | dermatology | |
| 切肤之痛 | keenly felt pain; bitter anguish | |
| 皮肤肌肉囊 | dermo-muscular sac | |
| 蓝肤木 | sumac (Rhus coriaria), east Mediterranean deciduous shrub with fruit used as spice; also c… | |
| 盐肤木 | Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis) | |
| 体肤 | skin; flesh; body | |
| 肤色 | skin color | |
| 皮肤 | skin; CL:層|层[ceng2],塊|块[kuai4] | |
| 爽肤水 | toner (cosmetics) | |
| 柔肤水 | skin toner | |
| 亲肤 | skin-friendly | |
| 护肤 | skincare | |
| 润肤露 | body lotion | |
| 润肤乳 | body lotion; body shampoo | |
| 皮肤癌 | skin cancer | |
| 肌肤 | skin; flesh; fig. close physical relationship | |
| 舒肤佳 | Safeguard (brand) | |
| 润肤膏 | moisturizing cream |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 夫 — compare how they read.