Radical 107

皮
← 106
Radical 107 (U+2F6A)
108 →
皮 (U+76AE) "skin, hide"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:pí
Bopomofo:ㄆㄧˊ
Wade–Giles:p'i2
Cantonese Yale:pei4
Jyutping:pei4
Japanese Kana:ヒ hi (on'yomi)
かわ kawa (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:피 pi
Names
Japanese name(s):毛皮/けがわ kegawa
ひのかわ hinokawa
Hangul:가죽 gajuk
Stroke order animation

Radical 107 or radical skin (皮部) meaning "skin" or "hide" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 94 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

皮 is also the 119th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

A hand (又) and animal hide (compare 革).

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters
+0皮
+3皯
+5皰 皱SC (=皺)
+6皲SC (=皸)
+7皳 皴
+8皵
+9皶 皷 皸 皹 (=皸)
+10皺
+11皻
+12皼
+13皽
+15皾

Sinogram

The radical is also used as an independent Chinese character. It is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a third grade kanji.

References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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