skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
beginning; start; first moxa treatment
to peel; to skin; to pare
to conceal one's true nature or feelings; to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite
still having a very small chance; still having a tiny shred of hope
over-optimistic calculation; counting one's chickens before they're hatched
black-dyed leather; leather dyed in deep indigo; edible mushroom in the Thelephoraceae family
with the skin on; skin and all (fruit, potato, etc.)
(of skin) to peel off (e.g. from sunburn); to improve; to become more refined
bamboo sheath; bamboo peel
peeling; paring; skinning; parer; peeler; paring-knife
veneer; outer layer that conceals something's true nature; (lit.) one layer of skin
thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer); skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking
to show someone's true colors; to remove someone's mask; (lit.) to take the veneer off something
(made of) leather; leather-bound
outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; epithelium
with the skin on; unskinned; unpeeled; unhusked
skin-side (of a fillet of fish)
chicken skin (esp. in cooking)
counting one's chickens before they're hatched; (lit.) counting raccoon dog skins before they have been caught
inner, astringent skin (of a chestnut)
bamboo sheath; bamboo peel
leather strap; thong; leash
mask (concealing one's true character); disguise; sheep's clothing
leather shoes; leather boots
cuticle (of a nail); endocarp
phimosis; tightening of the foreskin
leather cover; leather binding
hard shell of a nut, etc.
cream puff shell; choux pastry
bark; husk; untanned pelt
thick hide; shamelessness
sashimi with skin still attached
peeler (kitchen utensil); debarker (i.e. for removing bark from a tree); barker
protective cover on a clog
leathercraft; leatherwork
leather belt; (machine) belt
suede; leather using the underside of the skin; piece of leather on the underside of a bag, purse, etc.
little by little; slowly but surely
thin leather with gold patterns (introduced from Europe during the Edo period)
belly meat of fish (esp. bonito)
to convulse (e.g. with laughter); to split one's sides
tachibana peel (oft. minced and used as a spice); yellow-dyed leather
urbane and good-looking woman
reduced to skin and bones
total lie; big lie; complete lie
(a woman) to lose her roughness and become urbane and good-looking; to become experienced in worldly affairs
he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; (lit.) tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name
barfin flounder (Verasper moseri)
thin, soft membrane inside the tip of a bamboo culm; silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot
baskets wrapped in paper, bark or skin
to unmask (someone's true nature)
leatherworker; leathercrafter
outer layer (e.g. of skin); cuticle; epidermis; bark; rind; crust
one becomes sleepy when one's stomach is full; full stomach, sleepy head; (lit.) when the skin of the belly is extended, the skin of the eyes droops
leather; tanned animal hide; kanji "leather" radical (radical 177)
to show one's true colors; to expose one's true character
to betray oneself; to reveal one's true colors; to show the cloven hoof; to throw off the mask; to give oneself away
wrinkled hands from being in water; washerwoman's hands
pieces of young pepper tree branch (used medicinally or for pickling)
silky inner covering at the tip of a bamboo shoot
pick-guard (protective patch on a shamisen, etc.)
lowly people (Edo period); eta
Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara)
clown triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum)
Laetiporus versisporus (species of mushroom)