Radical 107

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.

皮
Radical 107 (U+2F6A)
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

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

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

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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