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

Historical forms of the character 豹
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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 *bruk (“piebald; speckled”). (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

豹

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

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

     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 (lyrics and music), “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

• “Entry #6693”, 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., 2024.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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

 ヒョウ on Japanese Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 豹 (paew^H).

• (Tokyo) ひょー (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

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)

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

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

豹

Wikisource

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.

豹: Hán Nôm readings: báo, beo, bươu

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