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Radical 107skin, hide; fur, peel

(second tone, rising)

skin, hide; fur, peel

Radical 1075 strokes0 characters

Where the shape comes from

A hand pulling a hide free from the flesh beneath it, the animal’s skin shown peeling away under the fingers — the whole scene of tanning reduced to one gesture. It names skin, hide, fur directly in 皮肤, skin, and lends its sound to 破, to break, split, and 被, a quilt, and the marker of the passive voice, both keeping only the hide’s sound and losing its picture.

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