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)

Derived characters

• 𬿅, 𠹕, 𭱯, 𥔰, 𪕺, 𦷒

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

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

Etymology

Exopassive derivative, meaning "the spotted one", of 駁 (OC *praːwɢ, “piebald”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bruk.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bào (bao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paau³, baau³
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): pà / pàu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ba³

• Wu (Wiktionary): pau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: bào
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: pao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baw
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bào
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paau³, baau³
    • Yale: paau, baau
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paau³, baau³
    • Guangdong Romanization: pao³, bao³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰäːu̯³³/, /päːu̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pà
    • Tâi-lô: pà
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pax
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /pa²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pàu
    • Tâi-lô: pàu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paux
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /paʊ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /paʊ²¹/

Note:

• pà - vernacular;
• pàu - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: ba³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pà
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²¹³/

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: pau (T2)
  • Sinological 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▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤr[e]wk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*preːwɢs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	豹
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	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 (hǔbàocháiláng)
• 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 (bàoyǐn)
• 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

References

• “Entry #6693”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

豹

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}

Etymology

Kanji in this term
豹
ひょう Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 豹 (paew^H).

Pronunciation

• 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, historical katakana ヘウ)

1. a leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, 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 term
豹

Han character

豹 (báo, beo, bươu)

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