豹

豹 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹心戈 (BHPI), four-corner 2722₀, composition ⿰豸勺)

• 𠹕, 𥔰, 𪕺, 𦷒, 𬿅, 𭱯

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *preːwɢs): semantic 豸 (“beast; creature”) + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ). Pictogram (象形) in the oracle bone script.

Exopassive derivative of 駁 (OC *praːwɢ, “piebald (horse)”), literally "the spotted one"; ultimately from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *prawk (“piebald; speckled”). (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

豹

1. leopard; panther (often more specifically Panthera pardus) (Classifier: 隻／只 m c mn mn-t; 頭／头 m; 匹 m)

   • 天子之馬走千里，勝人猛獸。天子之狗走百里，執虎豹。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     天子之马走千里，胜人猛兽。天子之狗走百里，执虎豹。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: The Tale of King Mu, Son of Heaven, c. 370 – 330 BCE, translated based on E. J. Eitel's version

     Tiānzǐ zhī mǎ zǒu qiān lǐ, shèng rén měngshòu. Tiānzǐ zhī gǒu zǒu bǎi lǐ, zhí hǔbào. [Pinyin]

     The steeds of the Son of Heaven could run a thousand li (a day) faster than any wild beast (or any) man; the hounds of the Son of Heaven could run a hundred li (a day) and they were able to seize tigers and leopards.

   • 2015, 許明傑, “唉呦我的媽”, in 《一寸心》, performed by 蔡秋鳳 [Kerris Tsai]:

     虎豹獅甲象大家相爭看 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     虎豹狮甲象大家相争看 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     hó͘ pà sai kah chhiūⁿ ta̍k-ke sio-chiⁿ khòaⁿ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a surname

Others:

• → Proto-Vietic: *pɛːw
  • Vietnamese: beo
• → Zhuang: beuq

• “豹”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “豹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “豹”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 176.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “豹”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 18.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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

• 海豹(あざらし) (azarashi)

From Middle Chinese 豹 (paew^H).

• (Tokyo) ひょー [hyóꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ço̞ː]

豹(ひょう) or 豹(ヒョウ) • (hyō) ^{←へう (feu) or ヘウ (feu)?}

1. a leopard (a large wild cat with a spotted coat, Panthera pardus)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

From Middle Chinese 豹 (MC paewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 표〮 (phywó) (Yale: phyo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

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豹 (eumhun 표범 표 (pyobeom pyo))

1. hanja form^? of 표 (“leopard; panther”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

豹: Hán Nôm readings: báo, beo, bươu

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