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  [(2)かわ]    meaning:  skin  rank: 1
☆ 林檎の皮 ⇨ Apple skins
☆ 転んの皮を擦りむいた ⇨ I fell and got raspberries on my knee  (☛ Skin when peeled off. Skin on the body is 肌)


More examples:
  • 皮肉な運命 ⇨ An ironic fate
  • 言葉には皮肉な響きがあった ⇨ His comment had a cynical tone
  • あいつの偽善の皮をひんいてやる ⇨ I will peel off his skin of hypocrisy. I will expose his hypocrisy
  • 人工皮革 ⇨ Artificial, synthetic, leather
  • 日焼けして皮がけた ⇨ My sunburned skin peeled off
  • 本皮は人工皮革より二倍高いというのが相場だ ⇨ It is normal that genuine leather costs twice as much as synthetic leather
  • 皮下脂肪 ⇨ Subcutaneous fat. Fat under skin. Body fat
  • たってもいないくじの使えるなんてらぬの皮算用だね (とらぬたぬきのかわざんよう) ⇨ Thinking about how to use lottery money you haven’t won is exactly the case of “count hides of raccoon dogs you still haven’t caught yet”
  • はいつもを皮肉るだけで解決策提示しない ⇨ He is always sarcastic about others but never offers any solutions
  • は皮肉っぽいをした ⇨ He said with a sarcastic tone
  • の樹皮を取る ⇨ Bears strip bark off trees
  • 彼女子役から本格女優への脱皮に成功した ⇨ She has successfully morphed from a child actor to a serious actress
  • の毛皮の模様茂みれるのにしている ⇨ Tigers fur patterns are suitable to camouflage in bushes
  • 合成皮革 ⇨ Synthetic leather
  • 彼女子役から本格女優に脱皮した ⇨ She has gone through metamorphosis from a child actor to a serious actress