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skin 皮
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For 'leather' also the radicals 革 and 韦 are used. |
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皮
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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skin, fur, leather
pí
A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off: the skin 厂. |
皮
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被
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JLPT HSK 3 |
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bedding, cover, quilt, by (passive)
bèi Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skin/leather 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂.)
(A large fur is meant.) "Clothes" of leather serve as bedding. |
衣
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破
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JLPT HSK 4 |
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to break, to tear, to defeat, worn out
pò Left: stone 石 (At the cliff 厂 is a stone 口.), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
With a stone on the skin you cause tears and breaks. |
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彼
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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that, the other, those, (one) another
bǐ 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. |
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皮
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婆
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grandmother, mother-in-law, matron
pó 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. |
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女
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玻
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glass
bō 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. |
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疲
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JLPT HSK 5 |
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tired, weary, exhausted
pí Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂 of that animal)
The 'disease' of the skin is the (visible) tiredness. |
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皮
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披
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to open, to unroll, to drape over one's shoulders
pī Left: hand 扌, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
The hand peels off the skin and lays it open. |
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波
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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wave, ripple, storm, surge
bō Left: water 氵; right: skin 皮 (Shows the skin 厂 of an animal with a hand 又, that cuts of the skin with a knife 丨)
The water (of the ocean) has a skin and this are the waves. |
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皱
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to wrinkle, folding, to crease, frown
zhòu Left: mowing grass 刍 (handle ⺈ of a big scythe 彐), right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
When sb. with a scythe in the hand peels of the skin, he causes wrinkles. |
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坡
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JLPT HSK 6 |
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slope, sloping, slanted
pō 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. |
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颇
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rather, considerably, inclined, slanting
pō 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. |
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簸
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to winnow, dust pan, toss (as waves)
bǒ, bò 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. |
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跛
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crippled, lame
bǒ 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. |
足
皮
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