皮
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skin; peel; rind; outer layer; leather; hide; fur; cover; wrapping; outer covering; (of food) no longer crisp; soggy; (coll.) naughty; mischievous; pico- (10⁻¹²)
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Dict coverage rank #184 U+76AE
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.
Characters built with 皮 as their sound component
These characters all use 皮 (pí) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮 sound component | pí | skin, hide, fur, feathers |
| 波 | bō | waves, ripples, breakers; undulations |
| 破 | pò | to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy |
| 被 | bèi | bedding; a passive particle meaning "by" |
| 坡 | pō | slope, hillside, embankment |
| 彼 | bǐ | that, those, the other |
| 玻 | bō | glass |
| 疲 | pí | weak, tired, exhausted |
| 颇 | pō | rather, quite; partial, biased |
| 陂 | bēi | dam, embankment; reservoir |
| 簸 | bǒ | dustpan; to winnow, to toss |
| 跛 | bǒ | lame |
| 帔 | pèi | cape, robe, skirt |
| 铍 | pí | beryllium |
Words containing 皮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮山县 | Pí shān Xiàn | Pishan, a county in Hotan City 和田市[He2 tian2 Shi4], Xinjiang |
| 皮特拉克 | Pí tè lā kè | Petrarch; Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), Italian scholar and lyric poet, famous for sonne… |
| 皮克斯 | Pí kè sī | Pixar Animation Studios |
| 南皮县 | Nán pí Xiàn | Nanpi, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 眼皮子 | yǎn pí zi | eyelid |
| 皮子 | pí zi | skin; fur |
| 皮山 | Pí shān | see 皮山縣|皮山县[Pi2 shan1 Xian4] |
| 头皮 | tóu pí | scalp |
| 重眼皮儿 | chóng yǎn pí r | double eyelid; epicanthal fold of upper eyelid (characteristic of Asian people) |
| 生皮 | shēng pí | pelt; raw hide |
| 地皮 | dì pí | lot; section of land; ground |
| 皮儿 | pí r | wrapper; cover |
| 皮尔 | Pí ěr | Pierre, capital of South Dakota |
| 拉皮 | lā pí | to have a facelift; facelift |
| 上皮 | shàng pí | (anatomy) epithelium; epithelial tissue |
| 动嘴皮子 | dòng zuǐ pí zi | see 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] |
| 西皮 | xī pí | one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera; see also 二黃|二黄[er4 huang2] |
| 书皮儿 | shū pí r | erhua variant of 書皮|书皮[shu1 pi2] |
| 动嘴皮儿 | dòng zuǐ pí r | erhua variant of 動嘴皮|动嘴皮[dong4 zui3 pi2] |
| 皮面 | pí miàn | outer skin; surface; leather cover (of a book); drum skin; leather upper (of a shoe) |