肌

はだ · hada · JLPT N3 · noun

skin

肌 — skin

🧴 肌 = 月 (flesh) + 几 · hada: I had a rash on my skin

The left part 月 here is the flesh radical (a squeezed form of 肉), used in body words like 腕 arm and 胸 chest. The sound hada works as had a: I had a sunburn on my skin. It also appears in 肌色 hadairo, skin colour.

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