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皮肤

pí fū 2–1

skin

HSK level
HSK 5
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 5
Characters
2
皮 · 肤
Syllables
2
pí fū
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,922

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 皮pí5 strokesHSK 3skin, hide, fur, feather; outer
  • 肤fū8 strokesHSK 4 traditional 膚skin; superficial, shallow

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 她的皮肤白得像雪。

    Tā de pí fū bái de xiàng xuě

    Her skin is as white as snow.

  • 她的皮肤比雪还白。

    Tā de pí fū bǐ xuě hái bái

    Her skin is more white than snow.

  • 我的皮肤是干性的。

    Wǒ de pí fū shì gān xìng de

    I have dry skin.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 皮肤. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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