pí
skin
Pictograph of a hand (又) peeling off the skin from an animal.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m-[p](r)aj | bje | pí | skin |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 50.9691% of movies
678th most common character in movies
741st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+76AE |
Shuowen | “皮,剝取獸革者謂之皮。从又,為省聲。,古文皮。,籀文皮。” |
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