皮, originally a hand stripping the fur from an animal pelt, can serve as both phonetic and semantic component to form characters. 皮 is compound ideograph.
See also the component 又
In modern Chinese 皮 means:
1.hide
2.skin
3.fur
4.leather
5.cover; surface
6.to become soggy instead of crispy
7.[Informal] naughty
皮 serves as a phonetic component to form characters
Characters formed by the phonetic component 皮
波 玻 菠 bō
披 旇 铍 pī
簸 跛 bǒ
彼 佊 bǐ
怶 诐 髲 bì
婆 嘙 pó
坡 颇 岥 pō
疲 帔 破 被 陂 pí pèi pò bèi bēi
皮 also serves as a semantic component to express meanings related to skin, leather, hide, etc.
Characters formed by the component 皮
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 5 | 皮 | pí | 8 | 皯 | gǎn |
| 10 | 皱 | zhòu | 10 | 皰 | pào |
| 11 | 皲 | jūn | 12 | 皴 | cūn |
| 12 | 皳 | qiú | 13 | 皵 | què |
| 14 | 皷 | gǔ | 14 | 皸 | jūn |
| 14 | 皹 | jūn | 14 | 皶 | zhā |
| 15 | 皺 | zhòu | 16 | 皻 | zhā |
| 11 | 颇 | pō | 17 | 皼 | gǔ |
| 18 | 皽 | zhāo | 20 | 皾 | dú |