bào
leopard
Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 勺 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤr[e]wk-s | paewH | bào | leopard |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.1166% of movies
2368th most common character in movies
2507th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8C79 |
Shuowen | “豹，似虎，圜文。从豸，勺聲。” |
Sources
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