The Chinese Radical: 皮


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Meaning
skin    皮

Explanation For 'leather' also the radicals and are used.

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
skin, fur, leather


A hand with a knife peels off: the skin .
JLPT HSK 3
bedding, cover, quilt, by (passive)
bèi
Left: clothes 衤/, right: skin/leather (A hand with a knife peels off the skin .)
(A large fur is meant.) "Clothes" of leather serve as bedding.
JLPT HSK 4
to break, to tear, to defeat, worn out

Left: stone (At the cliff is a stone .), right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
With a stone on the skin you cause tears and breaks.
JLPT HSK 5
that, the other, those, (one) another

Left: go , right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin .)
He who walks, this 'skin': That is the other.
JLPT HSK 5
grandmother, mother-in-law, matron

Top: wave 波 (The water has this skin ) [skin = A hand with a knife peels off the skin ], below: woman
The 'waved' (= with wrinkled skin) woman is my: grandmother.
JLPT HSK 5
glass

Left: king, jade (jade by itself is also: ), right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
When jade is (as thin) as a skin, it is glass.
JLPT HSK 5
tired, weary, exhausted

Outside: illness (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin of that animal)
The 'disease' of the skin is the (visible) tiredness.
JLPT HSK 5
to open, to unroll, to drape over one's shoulders

Left: hand , right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
The hand peels off the skin and lays it open.
JLPT HSK 6
wave, ripple, storm, surge

Left: water ; right: skin (Shows the skin of an animal with a hand , that cuts of the skin with a knife )
The water (of the ocean) has a skin and this are the waves.
JLPT HSK 6
to wrinkle, folding, to crease, frown
zhòu
Left: mowing grass (handle of a big scythe ), right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
When sb. with a scythe in the hand peels of the skin, he causes wrinkles.
JLPT HSK 6
slope, sloping, slanted

Left: earth , right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin .)
(Here the turf is open) That the ground/earth has a skin, you can see at the slope.
JLPT HSK 6
rather, considerably, inclined, slanting

Left: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin ), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页 (= head with shoulders and eyebrows )
The skin at the forehead is rather inclined.
JLPT HSK 6
to winnow, dust pan, toss (as waves)
bǒ, bò
Top: bamboo , bottom: (image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing), skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
Made of bamboo is the grain shovel for separating the "skins" (of the grain) when winnowing.
JLPT no HSK
crippled, lame

Left: foot (knee cap and footprint ), right: skin (A hand with a knife peels off the skin )
If you foot has some (extra) skin, you are crippled.

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