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Translingual

Han character

(radical 153 +3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹心戈 (BHPI), four-corner 27220, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1199, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36499
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1662, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3908, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8C79

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*preːwɢs
*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢs
*teːwɢs
*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ
*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
*bljewɢ
*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿 *lewɢ
*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
*breːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ
*pleːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/pᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/pauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/paɨwH/
Li
Rong
/pauH/
Wang
Li
/pauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11175
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*preːwɢs/

Definitions

  1. leopard, panther
  2. A surname.

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
ひょう
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

Noun

(hiragana ひょう, katakana ヒョウ, romaji hyō, historical hiragana へう)

  1. a leopard (Panthera pardus)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Hanja

(pyo)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul):  (revised: pyo, McCune-Reischauer: p'yo, Yale: phyo)
  • Name (hangeul): 표범 표()
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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word

Han character

(báo, beo, bươu)

  1. Hán tự form of báo, “spotted big cat
  2. Nôm form of beo, “spotted big cat”