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).