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皮肤 (pí fū): meaning and stroke order

皮肤 (pí fū) means skin, 层块.

皮肤

Simplified
皮肤
Traditional
皮膚
Pinyin
pí fū

Stroke order of 皮肤

皮

  • Pí surname Pi
  • pí leather; skin
  • 5 strokes

Stroke by stroke

肤

  • fū skin
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 膚

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 皮肤

  1. pí fū Traditional 皮膚
    • skin
    • CL:層|层[ceng2],塊|块[kuai4]

Radicals of the characters

皮
Radical 皮 (Kangxi radical 107) · 5 strokes
肤
Radical 肉 (Kangxi radical 130) · 8 strokes · 月 on the left, 夫 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

皮肤 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 他的头发变成了天上的星星，皮肤上的汗毛化作了大地上的草木。

    tā de tóufa biànchéng le tiān shàng de xīngxing pífū shàng de hànmáo huàzuò le dàdì shàng de cǎomù

    His hair became the stars in the sky, and the fine hairs on his skin became the grass and trees of the earth.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 太阳越往西走，夸父离它越近，他甚至能感到阳光像刀子一样割着他的皮肤。

    tàiyáng yuè wǎng xī zǒu Kuāfù lí tā yuè jìn tā shènzhì néng gǎndào yángguāng xiàng dāozi yíyàng gē zhe tā de pífū

    The further west the sun went, the closer Kuafu came, until he could feel the sunlight cutting his skin like knives.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 皮肤

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).