肌
肌 — Texture
texture, skin, body, grain
On’yomiキ (ki)
Kun’yomiはだ (hada)
Stroke order (6 strokes)
Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).
Common words using 肌
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肌 | はだ hada | skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface |
| 肌色 | はだいろ hadairo | flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange |
| 肌着 | はだぎ hadagi | underwear; underclothes; lingerie |
| 山肌 | やまはだ yamahada | mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain |
| 肌寒い | はださむい hadasamui | chilly; unpleasantly cold |
| 素肌 | すはだ suhada | bare skin; naked skin |
Study notes
肌 is a JLPT N2 kanji written with 6 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1559 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).
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