豹
bào HSK7

leopard

Phonosemantic compound. 豸 represents the meaning and 勺 represents the sound.

Components

豸
豸 Meaning component
zhì (dhole), beast
勺
勺 Sound component
sháo, shuò, zhuó spoon

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

貌

Remnant (1)

貌

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartpaewHpˤr[e]wk-s leopard

說文解字

《說文》：“豹，似虎，圜文。从豸，勺聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)