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- outer skin
- surface
- leather cover (of a book)
- drum skin
- leather upper (of a shoe)
Trad. 備皮
- to prep a patient's skin prior to surgery (shaving hair, cleansing etc)
Trad. 內皮
- (med.) endothelium
- thin skin on the inside of some fruits (e.g. oranges)
Trad. 陳皮
- dried tangerine peel (used in cuisine and traditional Chinese medicine)
Trad. 剝皮
- to skin; to flay; to peel
- (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals
- also pr. [bo1pi2]
Trad. 脫皮
- (of paint etc) to peel off; to flake off
- (of an insect or snake etc) to molt
- (of skin) to peel off due to hard labor, blistering or sunburn etc
- (fig.) to go through a grueling experience
- Pishan County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[He2 tian2 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang
- one of the two chief types of music in Chinese opera
- see also 二黃|二黄[er4 huang2]
Trad. 蛻皮
- skin cast off during molting
- exuvium
- to pupate
- to molt
- to slough
- to cast off an old skin or shell
Trad. 錢皮
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1920-2016), president of Italy 1999-2006
- Zhou the exploiter, archetypal character in short story 半夜雞叫|半夜鸡叫[ban4 ye4 ji1 jiao4]
Trad. 綠皮書
- green paper (government report proposing policies and inviting discussion)
Trad. 綠皮車
- green train (slow, noisy, unairconditioned train with forest green livery and yellow trim that ran on the Chinese railway system from the 1950s, phased out in the early 21st century)
Trad. 俏皮話
- witticism
- wisecrack
- sarcastic remark
- double entendre
Trad. 納皮爾
- Napier (name)
- John Napier (1550-1617), Scottish mathematician, inventor of logarithms
- Napier, city in New Zealand
- Chinese skullcap resembling the skin of half a watermelon
- to kick a ball around
- (fig.) to mutually shirk responsibility
- to pass the buck
Trad. 白皮書
- white paper (e.g. containing proposals for new legislation)
- white book
Trad. 南皮縣
- Nanpi, a county in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei
Trad. 阿皮亞
- Apia, capital of the Independent State of Samoa