皮 — Chinese character
皮
pí
skin, hide, fur, feathers
- Pinyin
- pí
- Radical
- 107 ⽪ (Skin)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 攴
- Formation
- pictographic — A hand using a tool 攴 to strip the hide from a carcass
- Japanese
- 皮 as a kanji
Common words with 皮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 皮肤 (皮膚) | pí fū | skin; 层 (céng),块 (kuài) |
| 皮革 | pí gé | leather; 张 (zhāng) |
| 皮带 (皮帶) | pí dài | strap; leather belt |
| 调皮 (調皮) | tiáo pí | naughty; mischievous |
| 皮鞋 | pí xié | leather shoes |
| 白皮书 (白皮書) | bái pí shū | white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation); white book |
| 顽皮 (頑皮) | wán pí | naughty |
| 皮质 (皮質) | pí zhì | cortex; cerebral cortex |
| 包皮 | bāo pí | wrapping; wrapper |
| 地皮 | dì pí | lot; section of land |
| 眼皮 | yǎn pí | eyelid |
| 脸皮 (臉皮) | liǎn pí | face; cheek |
English words written with 皮
皮 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 7
- Analects 3.16
- Mencius 1B.15
- Mencius 5A.9
- Mencius 5B.7
- Mencius 7B.37
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.