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

• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
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

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U 76AE