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leather, skin 皮
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Used in these characters:
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波
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JLPT 3Joyo 3 |
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| wave
nami, HA
氵
皮
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Left: water 氵, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
The water (of the sea) has a skin and this are the waves.
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皮
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JLPT 3Joyo 3 |
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| skin, fur, leather
kawa, HI
皮
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Pictograph of a hand 又 with a knife 丨 that peels off the skin 厂.
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破
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JLPT 2Joyo 5 |
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| tear, break, crack
yaburu/reru, HA
石
皮
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Left: stone 石 (Below the cliff 厂 are stones 口), right: skin 皮 (The skin 厂 of that animal is peeled off with a knife 丨 by hand 又)
Stones on the skin cause tears and breaks.
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婆
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| old woman
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Top: wave 波 (= the water's 氵skin 皮) [skin 皮 = A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂], bottom: woman 女
With waves (= with wrinkled skin) is this woman: an old woman.
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彼
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JLPT 2Joyo 7 |
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| he, him, boyfriend
kare, kano, are, ano, HI
彳
皮
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Left: go 彳, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
He goes, nothing but skin: He, that person!
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披
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JLPT 1Joyo 7 |
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| expose, open, disclose, announce
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Left: hand 扌, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
The hand peels off the skin and exposes everything.
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疲
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JLPT 2Joyo 7 |
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| exhausted, tired, weary
tsukareru, HI
疒
皮
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Outside: illness 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), below: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
A disease that shows at the skin is exhaustion and tiredness.
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被
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JLPT 2Joyo 7 |
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| cover, put on, sustain, suffer, veil, wear, be exposed (film)
kōmuru, ōu, HI
衣
皮
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Left: clothes 衤/衣, right: skin 皮 (A hand 又 with a knife 丨 peels off the skin 厂)
The clothes are like a skin, because they are covering.
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