biǎo

wristwatch

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

表 sound component

  Sound component

biǎo

  

exterior surface

Evolution

錶 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
錶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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biǎo

a watch, clock; wrist or pocket watch

Most common words with 錶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

表现

to show

表示

to express

表演

play

代表

delegate

a model

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 88.4350% of movies

252nd most common character in movies

177th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+9336


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