noun #12,207

Meanings

  1. 1 skin

Examples

Tā de pífū hěn hǎo.
Her skin is very good.
Zhège shuōfǎ tài fūqiǎn le.
This statement is too superficial.

Tips

usage
皮肤 (skin) is the standard word; 肤浅 (superficial) is a figurative use.

Components

radical
ròu
flesh; meat (left form)
⺼ is the flesh-meat radical (visually a "moon" but historically ) and places squarely in the body-parts family — same radical in , , , . Skin is the body's flesh envelope; the link is direct.
phonetic
husband; man
gives the sound fū exactly, same tone. The simplified borrows as a clean phonetic; traditional has the much more elaborate element. No semantic content here — pure sound match.

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