Skin in Chinese
skin · HSK 4
皮肤
- 皮 skin
- 肤 skin
Counted with 层: 一层皮肤
她的皮肤又白又好。 Her skin is fair and smooth.
Other ways to say skin
More words with 皮 or 肤
How do you say skin in Chinese?
Skin in Chinese is 皮肤 (pí fū). You can also say 皮 (pí).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.