豹

豹 U+8C79, 豹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C79 ← 豸 [U+8C78] CJK Unified Ideographs 豺 → [U+8C7A]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		豹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 豹
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (勺) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bào (bao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau³, baau³
• Min Nan (POJ): pà / pàu
• Wu (Wiktionary): pau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bào
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ
    • Wade-Giles: pao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baw
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paau³, baau³
    • Yale: paau, baau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau³, baau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao³, bao³
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑːu̯³³/, /pɑːu̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pà
    • Tâi-lô: pà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pax
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pàu
    • Tâi-lô: pàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /paʊ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /paʊ²¹/

Note:

• pà - vernacular;
• pàu - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: pau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /pɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠau^H/▼

Rime
Character	豹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	北敎切
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*preːwɢs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	豹
Reading #	1/1
No.	11175
Phonetic component	勺
Rime group	豹
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	豹
Old Chinese	/*preːwɢs/

Definitions

豹

1. leopard; panther
2. (more specifically) leopard, Panthera pardus

   Synonyms: 金錢豹／金钱豹 (jīnqiánbào)

3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 全豹
• 半豹
• 南山隱豹／南山隐豹
• 南山霧豹／南山雾豹
• 君子豹變／君子豹变
• 海豹 (hǎibào)
• 熊心豹膽／熊心豹胆
• 獵豹／猎豹 (lièbào)
• 玄豹
• 窺豹一斑／窥豹一斑
• 管中窺豹／管中窥豹
• 美洲豹 (měizhōubào)

• 虎豹之文
• 虎豹豺狼
• 豹值
• 豹子 (bàozi)
• 豹尾班
• 豹尾車／豹尾车
• 豹房
• 豹死留皮
• 豹環／豹环
• 豹略
• 豹皮帽
• 豹立直

• 豹腳／豹脚
• 豹變／豹变
• 豹貓／豹猫 (bàomāo)
• 豹隱／豹隐
• 豹頭猿臂／豹头猿臂 (bàotóuyuánbì)
• 豹頭環眼／豹头环眼 (bàotóuhuányǎn)
• 豺狼虎豹 (cháilánghǔbào)
• 金錢豹／金钱豹 (jīnqiánbào)
• 雪豹 (xuěbào)
• 霧豹／雾豹
• 黑豹
• 龍肝豹胎／龙肝豹胎

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Japanese

Kanji

豹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: ひょう (hyō)
• Kan’on: ほう (hō)

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
豹
ひょう Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) ひょ​ー [hyóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ço̞ː]

Noun

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

1. a leopard (Panthera pardus)

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Korean

Hanja in this term
豹

Hanja

豹 • (pyo)

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

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Vietnamese

Hán tự in this word
豹

Han character

豹 (báo, beo, bươu)

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