biāo

tiger

A tiger's  stripes 

Components
虎 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tiger

彡 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

hair

Evolution

彪 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
彪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
彪 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
彪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

biāo

tiger; tiger stripes; tiger-like; tiger cub; (old) classifier for troops

Most common words with 彪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

tiger cub

林彪

Lin Biao (1908-1971), Chinese army leader at time of the Cultural Revolution

彪悍

tough as nails

彪形大汉

burly chap

彪炳

shining

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2406th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+5F6A

Shuowen

“彪,虎文也。从虎,彡象其文也。”


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