膚 means “skin”

ふ · fu

Also: body, grain, texture

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はだ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

フ

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

The story

A tiger's head (虍) over a stomach (胃): picture striped hide stretched across a belly. 膚 almost always comes paired with 皮 as 皮膚, skin, and the 皮膚科, the dermatology clinic, is where you take a rash.

Used in 皮膚 (hifu, skin), 皮膚科 (hifuka, dermatology), and 完膚なきまで (kanpu naki made, utterly, leaving nothing intact)

More from The Human Body

• 脳 brain
• 臓 internal organ
• 皮 skin
• 胸 chest
• 腕 arm
• 毛 hair
• 肩 shoulder
• 腰 lower back
• 涙 tears
• 汗 sweat
• 肌 skin
• 胃 stomach

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.