剥皮 (bāopí): to skin

Meanings

1 to skin
2 to flay
3 to peel
4 (figurative, colloquial) to haul someone over the coals

Characters

剥

Examples

他熟练地把香蕉剥皮。

Tā shúliàn de bǎ xiāngjiāo bāopí.

He skillfully peeled the banana.

要是被妈妈发现，非剥皮不可。

Yàoshi bèi māma fāxiàn, fēi bāopí bùkě.

If mom finds out, she'll absolutely tear into me.

Tips

mistakes

The character 剥 has two readings: bāo in colloquial speech (剥皮, 剥香蕉) and bō in literary or compound terms (剥削 bōxuē 'to exploit'). Spoken Mandarin usually picks bāo for everyday peeling.

Stroke Order

剥 bāo

皮 pí

Related Words

皮 pí HSK 3 #1,314

skin; leather / peel; rind; surface / naughty; mischievous (colloquial)

剥 bāo HSK 7 #5,457

to peel; to shell; to skin

刨皮 bàopí

to peel (with a peeler) / to plane off the skin

干皮 gānpí

dry skin (skin type) / a person with dry skin

冰皮月饼 bīngpíyuèbǐng

snow skin mooncake / ice skin mooncake

豆皮 dòupí

tofu skin / dried beancurd sheet / (Wuhan dish) doupi — pan-fried sticky-rice and beancurd-skin parcel

奶皮 nǎipí

milk skin (the film that forms on heated milk) / urum (Mongolian clotted milk skin dairy snack, usually called 奶皮子)

双皮奶 shuāngpínǎi

double skin milk (Cantonese milk custard dessert) / steamed milk-egg custard with a double-layered skin

磨皮 mópí

(photo editing) to smooth skin; skin-smoothing filter / (cosmetic) dermabrasion

破皮 pòpí

to scrape/graze the skin; to break the skin