Onyomi: キ · Kunyomi: はだ · Meanings: body, grain, skin, texture
Kanji for body, grain, skin, texture
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肌 is formed from the flesh/body radical 月 on the left and the character 几 on the right. 月 represents the body or flesh, while 几 suggests a surface or framework. Together, they show the surface of the body. From this structure, 肌 came to mean skin or肌 (body surface).
肌 shows the body’s surface, meaning skin.
Think of the body or flesh (月), and focus on its outer surface or framework (几). That outer covering of the body is 肌 — skin.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 肌 | はだ | skin | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 肌着 | はだぎ | underwear, underclothes, lingerie, chemise, singlet | common JLPT-N2 Noun |
| 肌寒い | はださむい | chilly, unpleasantly cold | I-adjective (keiyoushi) |
| 肌触り | はだざわり | feel, touch, texture | Noun |
| 木目 | きめ | texture (e.g. skin, fabric) | Noun |
| 肌荒れ | はだあれ | bad skin, rough skin, unhealthy skin | Noun, Suru verb |
| 肌色 | はだいろ | flesh colour (of a Japanese person), flesh color, pale orange | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 肌身 | はだみ | body | Noun |
| 肌合い | はだあい | disposition, temperament, turn of mind, atmosphere, feeling | Noun |
| 開ける | はだける | to open (e.g. one's robe), to bare (e.g. one's chest), to expose | Ichidan verb, Transitive verb |