表

See also: 錶

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

表 (radical 145 衣+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手一女 (QMV), four-corner 5073₂, composition ⿱龶𧘇)

References

• 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

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Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		表

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biǎo (biao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): péu
• Min Dong (BUC): biēu
• Min Nan (POJ): piáu / pió
• Wu (Wiktionary): piau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: biǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: piao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beau
    • IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: biu²
    • Yale: bíu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu²
    • IPA ^(key): /piːu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: péu
    • Hakka Romanization System: beu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: beu³
    • IPA: /pe̯u³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: biēu
    • IPA ^(key): /pieu³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáu / pió
    • Tâi-lô: piáu / pió
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piao, pioir
    • IPA (Taipei): /piaʊ⁵³/, /pio⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piaʊ⁵³/, /piɤ⁵³/
    • Note: piáu - literary; pió - vernacular.
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: piau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /piɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /piᴇu^X/▼

Rime
Character	表
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	陂矯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pjæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piawX/
Li Rong	/piɛuX/
Wang Li	/pĭɛuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*p(r)awʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*prawʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	表
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ pjewX ›
Old Chinese	/*p(r)awʔ/
English	exterior
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	表
Reading #	1/1
No.	813
Phonetic component	表
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	表
Old Chinese	/*prawʔ/

Definitions

表

1. surface; outside; external
2. table; form; list
3. to show; to express, to display

Derived terms

• 表白 (biǎobái)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 表 – see 錶. (This character, 表, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 錶.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

表

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō)
• Kan’on: ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: あらわ.す (arawa.su), あら.わす (ara.wasu), あらわ.れす (arawa.resu), おもて (omote)

Compounds

Compounds of 表

表沙汰 (おもてざた, ​omotezata) 表千家 (おもてせんけ, ​omotesenke) 表計算 (ひょうけいさん, hyōkeisan) 表決 (ひょうけつ, hyōketsu) 表見 (ひょうけん, hyōken) 表見代理 (ひょうけんだいり, hyōkendairi)

表現 (ひょうげん, hyōgen) 表示 (ひょうじ, hyōji) 表情 (ひょうじょう, hyōjō) 表皮 (ひょうひ, hyōhi) 表明 (ひょうめい, hyōmei) 表面 (ひょうめん, hyōmen)

表裏 (ひょうり, hyōri) 表裏一体 (ひょうりいったい, hyōriittai) 公表 (こうひょう, kōhyō) 年表 (ねんぴょう, nenpyō) 発表 (はっぴょう, happyō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
表
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA^(key): [o̞.mo̞.te̞]
• おもて​ (Odaka)

Noun

表 ‎(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

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

Suffix

表 ‎(hiragana おもて, romaji -omote)

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (verb:) 表す (ひょうす, ​hyōsu)

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• IPA^(key): [çjo̞ː]
• ヒョー (Heiban)

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

表 ‎(hiragana ひょう, romaji hyō)

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

Verb

表する ‎(hiragana ひょうする, romaji hyō suru)

1. to express, to show

Conjugation

Conjugation of "表する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	表し	ひょうし	hyō shi
Continuative (連用形)	表し	ひょうし	hyō shi
Terminal (終止形)	表する	ひょうする	hyō suru
Attributive (連体形)	表する	ひょうする	hyō suru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	表すれ	ひょうすれ	hyō sure
Imperative (命令形)	表せよ¹ 表しろ²	ひょうせよ¹ ひょうしろ²	hyō seyo¹ hyō shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	表される	ひょうされる	hyō sareru
Causative	表させる 表さす	ひょうさせる ひょうさす	hyō saseru hyō sasu
Potential	表できる	ひょうできる	hyō dekiru
Volitional	表しよう	ひょうしよう	hyō shiyō
Negative	表しない	ひょうしない	hyō shinai
Negative continuative	表せず	ひょうせず	hyō sezu
Formal	表します	ひょうします	hyō shimasu
Perfective	表した	ひょうした	hyō shita
Conjunctive	表して	ひょうして	hyō shite
Hypothetical conditional	表すれば	ひょうすれば	hyō sureba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative

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Korean

Hanja

表 • ‎(pyo) (hangeul 표, McCune-Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

1. Hanja form^? of 표, “table, diagram, or graph”.

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Vietnamese

Han character

表 (biểu, vẹo, vếu, bẻo, bẹo)

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