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Translingual [edit]

Han character [edit]

(radical 145 +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手一女 (QMV), four-corner 50732)

  1. show, express, manifest, display

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 1111, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34105
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1576, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 21, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8868

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale biu2)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana おもて, romaji omote)

  1. surface; face (visible side of an object)
  2. front (of a building), obverse side of a coin ("heads")
  3. cover attached to a surface
  4. outer clothing;
  5. facade; appearance; outside; exterior
  6. public; official
  7. main entrance of a house; front door
  8. outside a house; outdoors; street in front of a house
  9. (baseball) first half, top (of an inning)
  10. Abbreviation of 表千家 (omotesenke). Foundation of Fushin-an
  11. front room; living room
  12. (computing) foreground
Antonyms [edit]

(うら, ura): back, bottom (of an inning, in baseball)

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana おもて, romaji -omote)

Usage Notes [edit]

Attached to a noun to indicate direction, location, etc.

Etymology 2 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana ひょう, romaji hyō)

  1. table, chart, list
  2. documents presented to a monarch from a vassal

Verb [edit]

+ する (irregular conjugation, hiragana ひょうする, romaji hyō suru)表する 表 suru

  1. to express, to show
Alternate forms [edit]

表す (ひょうす, hyōsu)

Conjugation [edit]

References [edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised pyo, McCune-Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)


Mandarin [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • (file)
  • IPA: [ piau˨˩˦ ]

Noun [edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin biǎo)

  1. surface; outside; external
  2. table; form; list

Noun [edit]

(simplified, Pinyin biǎo, traditional )

  1. watch; gauge; meter

Derived terms [edit]

Verb [edit]

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin biǎo)

  1. to show; to express

Derived terms [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(biểu, vẹo, vếu, bẻo, bẹo)