Radical 107

皮
106 ⽩ ◄	107	► ⽫ 108
Pinyin :	pí (= leather)
Zhuyin :	ㄆ ㄧ ˊ
Hiragana :	け が わ kegawa
Kanji :	毛皮 kegawa
Hangul :	가죽
Sinocorean :	피 pi
Codepoint :	U + 76AE
Stroke sequence :

Radical 107 , meaning " leather , skin ", is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with five strokes.

With 9 character combinations in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are very few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "skin" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 107. position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 153rd position.

The character developed from a pictogram showing meat under the periosteum structure.

In the signs 皱 (= wrinkle) and 皲 (in: 皲裂 junlie = to become cracked), 皮 functions as a carrier of meaning for skin. Far more often, however, the radical occurs as a sound carrier, such as in 披 (= put over the shoulder), 疲 (= exhausted), 铍 (po = beryllium ), 彼 (bi = that one), 被 (with = ceiling, passive Preposition), 破 (po = broken), 波 (bo = wave), 坡 (po = slope).

Character combinations ruled by radical 107

leather

Strokes	character
+ 00	皮
+ 03	皯
+ 05	皰 皱
+ 06	皲
+ 07	皳 皴
+ 08	皵
+ 09	皶 皷 皸 皹
+10	皺
+11	皻
+12	皼
+13	皽
+15	皾

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 107 is coded under the code point number 12.138 (U + 2F6A).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 170 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 107  - Graphic representations of Radikal 107

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 107 on page 105