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皮

皮

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

皮 (radical 107 皮+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 木竹水 (DHE), four-corner 40247)

  1. Kangxi radical #107, ⽪ ‎(“skin”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 790, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22823
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1205, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+76AE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 皮

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 皮
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (皮) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
陂 *pral, *prals
詖 *pral, *prals
彼 *pralʔ
柀 *pralʔ
佊 *pralʔ, *prals
貱 *prals
跛 *prals, *paːlʔ
披 *pʰral, *pʰralʔ
鈹 *pʰral
帔 *pʰral, *pʰrals
鮍 *pʰral
耚 *pʰral
狓 *pʰral
翍 *pʰral
旇 *pʰral, *brals
秛 *pʰral, *pʰrals
紴 *pʰralʔ, *paːl
皮 *bral
疲 *bral
被 *bralʔ, *brals
髲 *brals
鞁 *brals
骳 *mbralʔ
波 *paːl
碆 *paːl, *baːl
菠 *paːl
簸 *paːlʔ, *paːls
駊 *paːlʔ, *pʰaːlʔ
頗 *pʰaːl, *pʰaːlʔ, *pʰaːls
坡 *pʰaːl
玻 *pʰaːl
破 *pʰaːls
婆 *baːl
蔢 *baːl

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.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 皮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 符羈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /bjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /bje/
Wang
Li		 /bǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 皮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-[p](r)aj/
English skin

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 皮
Reading # 1/1
No. 9711
Phonetic
component		 皮
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 皮
Old
Chinese		 /*bral/

Definitions

皮

  1. skin; hide; fur; leather
  2. peel; shell
  3. bark; rind
  4. wrapper; cover; skin
  5. surface; top part
  6. rubber
  7. thin sheet
  8. outer; superficial
  9. sticky; glutinous
  10. soggy; non-crispy
  11. naughty; disobedient
  12. thick-skinned
  13. (loanword) pico- (SI unit prefix)

Compounds

Japanese

Etymology

kapa → kaɸa → kawa.

Noun

皮 ‎(hiragana かわ, romaji kawa, historical hiragana かは)

  1. skin
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 2, page 33:
      皮 釋名云、皮. 音疲、加波

Kanji

皮

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

References

Korean

Hanja

皮 • ‎(pi) (hangeul 피, McCune-Reischauer p'i, Yale phi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皮 (bì, bề, vừa, bầy, bìa, vào)

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