表

See also: 錶

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (表) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
表	*prawʔ
裱	*prawʔ, *praws
俵	*praws

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 衣 (“garment; clothing”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 錶 (etymology 2) in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme ((deprecated template usage) 《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		表

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biǎo (biao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): péu
• Eastern Min (BUC): biēu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pió / piáu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): biou² / biao² / bio²

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵piau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biǎo
    • Wade–Giles: piao³
    • Yale: byǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beau
    • Palladius: бяо (bjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biǎor
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠˇㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biǎor
    • Wade–Giles: piao³-ʼrh
    • Yale: byǎur
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beaul
    • Palladius: бяор (bjaor)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯aʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: biu²
    • Yale: bíu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: biu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːu̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: péu
    • Hakka Romanization System: beu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: beu³
    • Sinological IPA: /peu̯³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: biēu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pieu³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pió / piáu
    • Tâi-lô: pió / piáu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pioir, piao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pio⁵³/, /piau⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pio⁵⁵⁴/, /piau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pio⁵³/, /piau⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pio⁵³/, /piau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /piɤ⁴¹/, /piau⁴¹/

Note:

• pió - vernacular;
• piáu - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: biou² / biao² / bio²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pióu / piáu / pió
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piou⁵²/, /piau⁵²/, /pio⁵²/

Note: bio2 - “cousin”.

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵piau
    • MiniDict: piau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²piau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /piɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiewX

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
Baxter	pjiewX
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	biu2

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 表

1. ^† outer garment
2. surface; outside; exterior
3. external; outside; superficial
4. table; form; list
5. to show; to express; to display
6. (Mainland China, Internet slang) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 不要 (bùyào, “do not; don't”).

   表醬紫／表酱紫  ―  biǎo jiàngzǐ  ―  don't be like this

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 表 – see 錶 (“watch; wristwatch; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 錶).

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

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

表

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kun: あらわす (arawasu, 表す, Jōyō)^{←あらはす (arafasu, 表す, historical)}; あらわす (arawasu, 表わす)^{←あらはす (arafasu, 表はす, historical)}; あらわれす (arawaresu, 表れす); あらわれる (arawareru, 表れる, Jōyō); おもて (omote, 表, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds of 表

• 表(おもて)沙(ざ)汰(た) (omotezata)
• 表(おもて)千(せん)家(け) (omotesenke)
• 表(ひょう)計(けい)算(さん) (hyōkeisan)
• 表(ひょう)決(けつ) (hyōketsu)
• 表(ひょう)見(けん) (hyōken)
• 表(ひょう)見(けん)代(だい)理(り) (hyōkendairi)

• 表(ひょう)現(げん) (hyōgen): expression
• 表(ひょう)示(じ) (hyōji): display
• 表(ひょう)情(じょう) (hyōjō)
• 表(ひょう)皮(ひ) (hyōhi)
• 表(ひょう)明(めい) (hyōmei)
• 表(ひょう)面(めん) (hyōmen): visible surface, outer face

• 表(ひょう)裏(り) (hyōri)
• 表(ひょう)裏(り)一(いっ)体(たい) (hyōrīttai)
• 公(こう)表(ひょう) (kōhyō): reveal to the public, publicise
• 年(ねん)表(ぴょう) (nenpyō)
• 発(はっ)表(ぴょう) (happyō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
表
Grade: 3
kun’yomi

Noun

表(おもて) • (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. Short for 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(おもて) • (-omote) 

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Usage notes

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (verb) 表(ひょう)す (hyōsu)

Noun

表(ひょう) • (hyō) ^{←へう (feu)?}

1. table, chart, list

   表(ひょう)のセル ― hyō no seru ― table cell

   常(じょう)用(よう)漢(かん)字(じ)表(ひょう) ― jōyō kanji hyō ― list of commonly used kanji

2. documents presented to a monarch from a vassal

Verb

表(ひょう)する • (hyō suru) suru (stem 表(ひょう)し (hyō shi), past 表(ひょう)した (hyō shita))

1. to express, to show

Conjugation

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

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	表し	ひょうし	hyō shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	表し	ひょうし	hyō shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	表する	ひょうする	hyō suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	表する	ひょうする	hyō suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	表すれ	ひょうすれ	hyō sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	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

(deprecated template usage) 表 (biểu, vẹo, vếu, bẻo, bẹo)

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