肌膚

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See also: 肌肤

Chinese

flesh; muscle skin
trad. (肌膚)
simp. (肌肤)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (1)
Final () (15) (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter kjij pju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiɪ/ /pɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ki/ /pio/
Shao
Rongfen
/kjɪ/ /pio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ki/ /puə̆/
Li
Rong
/ki/ /pio/
Wang
Li
/ki/ /pĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ki/ /pi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gei1 fu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kij › ‹ pju ›
Old
Chinese
/*krə/ /*pra/
English flesh skin

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 5756 5275
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kril/ /*pla/

Noun

肌膚

  1. (literally) human skin and muscle; skin
  2. (figuratively) close physical relationship

Derived terms