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皮 kanji
pelt, skin, hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 5
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ヒ
Kun readings
かわ
Words with 皮
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —鱗皮scaly hide or skin
- —書皮book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer)
- —虎皮tiger fur
- —桜皮cherry tree inner bark
- —犬皮dog skin; dog hide; dog fur
- —甲皮carapace; shell; crust
- —犀皮rhinoceros hide; Chinese lacquerware technique resulting in a mottled finish
- —蛇皮snake skin; sanshin
- —皮弁skin flap; flap
- —経皮percutaneous
- —剥皮decortication; peeling; denuding
- —皮溝epidermal depression; skin depression
- —皮屑dander; skin flakes; dead skin cells
- —皮紙parchment; vellum
- —涼皮liangpi (cold, noodle-like Chinese dish)
- —珠皮integument
- —球皮envelope (of a hot air balloon)
- —周皮periderm
- —魚皮dried fish skin (oft. used as bait for fishing); boiled and dried shark skin (popular ingredient in Chinese cuisine)
- —雁皮紙traditional Japanese paper made from the fibre of plant species Diplomorpha sikokiana (high quality, glossy)