Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N2

1092 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: pelt, skin, hide, leather, skin radical (no. 107)

Kunyomi: かわ

Onyomi:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: けがわ

Meaning: skin

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

膚(ひふ)   skin [n.]

肉(ひにく)   cynicism, sarcasm, irony, satire

相(ひそう)   superficial

下注射(ひかちゅうしゃ)   hypodermic injection

(じゅひ)   bark

する(だっぴする)   molt, shed, emerge

(かわ)   skin, hide, leather, fur, pelt, bark

(けがわ)   fur, skin, pelt

Onyomi Examples

ヒニク irony, sarcasm, cynicism, satire, unexpected, different from what one expected, not as one had planned, (only) surface, something superficial, skin and bone, body

ヒカク leather, hide

ヒョウヒ epidermis, cuticle, bark, epidermis, facade

ウワカワ outer layer (e.g. of skin), cuticle, epidermis, bark, rind, crust, film (on the surface of a liquid), scum, epithelium

Kunyomi Examples

かわ skin, hide, pelt, fur, rind, peel, husk, bark, shell, sheath, wrapping, mask (hiding one's true nature), seeming

切り かわきり beginning, start

ひとかわ unmasking

うすかわ thin skin