The Chinese Radical: 皮


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Meaning
skin    皮

Explanation For 'leather' the radicals 革 and 韦 are used.

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

A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.  
被
JLPT HSK 3
bedding, cover, quilt, by (passive)
bèi
衣 皮
Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skin/leather 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
(A large fur is meant.) "Clothes" of leather serve as bedding.  
破
JLPT HSK 4
to break, to tear, to defeat, worn out
pò
石 皮
Left: stone 石 (At the cliff 厂 is a stone 口.), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
With a stone on the skin you cause tears and breaks.  
彼
JLPT HSK 5
that, the other, those, (one) another
bǐ
彳 皮
Left: go 彳, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂.)
He who walks, this 'skin': That is the other.  
婆
JLPT HSK 5
grandmother, mother-in-law, matron
pó
皮 女
Top: wave 波 (The water 氵has this skin 皮) [skin 皮 = A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂], below: woman 女
The 'waved' (= with wrinkled skin) woman is my: grandmother.  
玻
JLPT HSK 5
glass
bō
玉 王 皮
Left: king, jade 王 (jade by itself is also: 玉), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
When jade is (as thin) as a skin, it is glass.  
疲
JLPT HSK 5
tired, weary, exhausted
pí
疒 皮
Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
The 'disease' (visible) at the skin is the tiredness.  
披
JLPT HSK 5
to open, to unroll, to drape over one's shoulders
pī
扌 皮
Left: hand 扌, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
The hand peels off the skin and lays it open.  
波
JLPT HSK 6
wave, ripple, storm, surge
bō
氵 皮
Left: water 氵; right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
The water (of the ocean) has a skin and this are the waves.  
皱
JLPT HSK 6
to wrinkle, folding, to crease, frown
zhòu
刍 皮
Left: mowing grass 刍 (handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 peels off the animal the skin 厂 with a knife 丨.)
When a scythe in a hand peels off the skin, it causes wrinkles.  
坡
JLPT HSK 6
slope, sloping, slanted
pō
土 皮
Left: earth 土, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂.)
(Here the turf is open:) That the ground/earth has a skin, you can see at the slope.  
颇
JLPT HSK 6
rather, considerably, inclined, slanting
pō
皮 頁
Left: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂), right: page, leaf, (fore)head 页 (=頁 head 目 with shoulders 八 and eyebrows 一)
The skin at the forehead is rather inclined.  
簸
JLPT HSK 6
to winnow, dust pan, toss (as waves)
bǒ, bò
竹 其 皮
Top: bamboo 竹, bottom: 其 (image of a grain shovel/scoop (tool for threshing), skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
Made of bamboo is the grain shovel for separating the "skins" (of the grain) when winnowing.  
跛
JLPT no HSK
crippled, lame
bǒ
足 皮
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
If you foot has some (extra) skin, you are crippled.  

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