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U+8C79, 豹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C79

[U+8C78]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C7A]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *preːwɢs) : semantic (beast; creature) + phonetic (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ). Pictogram (象形) in the oracle bone script.

Etymology[edit]

Exopassive derivative of (OC *praːwɢ, “piebald (horse)”), literally "the spotted one"; ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bruk (piebald; speckled) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation[edit]


Note: baau3 - rare.
Note:
  • pà - vernacular;
  • pàu - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (1)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter paewH
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
baau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bào
Middle
Chinese
‹ paewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*pˁr[e]wk-s/
English leopard

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 11175
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*preːwɢs/

Definitions[edit]

  1. leopard; panther (often more specifically Panthera pardus) (Classifier: m c mn)
  2. a surname

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (ひょう) (hyō)
  • Vietnamese: báo ()

Others:

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Kanji in this term
ひょう
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi
 ヒョウ on Japanese Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese (paewH).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(ひょう) or (ヒョウ) (hyōへう (feu) or ヘウ (feu)?

  1. a leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus)

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC paewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 표〮 (phyó) (Yale: phyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 표범 (pyobeom pyo))

  1. Hanja form? of (leopard; panther).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: báo, beo, bươu

  1. chữ Hán form of báo (spotted big cat).
  2. Nôm form of beo (spotted big cat).