彪

彪 U+5F6A, 彪 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F6A ← 彩 [U+5F69] CJK Unified Ideographs 彫 → [U+5F6B]

Translingual

Han character

彪 (Kangxi radical 59, 彡+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓竹竹竹 (YNHHH) or 卜山竹竹竹 (YUHHH), four-corner 2221₂, composition ⿺虎彡)

Derived characters

• 滮, 𬩃, 𱬂, 𧜺, 𬧌, 𲌾, 𤹼, 𧷠

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 363, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9993
• Dae Jaweon: page 683, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2820, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5F6A

Chinese

trad.		彪
simp. #		彪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彪
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (彪) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
彪	*prɯw
淲	*brɯw
滮	*brɯw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biāo (biao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): biu¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pêu
• Eastern Min (BUC): biĕu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): piau / piu / phiu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): biu¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹piau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biao
    • Wade–Giles: piao¹
    • Yale: byāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biau
    • Palladius: бяо (bjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: biu¹
    • Yale: bīu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: biu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: biu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːu̯⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: beu^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: beu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /peu̯²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: biĕu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pieu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piau
    • Tâi-lô: piau
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piaw
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /piau⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piu
    • Tâi-lô: piu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: piw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /piu⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /piu³³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phiu
    • Tâi-lô: phiu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phiw
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pʰiu⁴⁴/

Note:

• piau - literary;
• piu/phiu - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: biu¹
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: piu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piu³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹piau
    • MiniDict: piau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹piau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /piɔ⁵³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 彪
Mandarin	Beijing	/piɑu⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/piau⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/piɑu²¹/
	Jinan	/piɔ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/piɔ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/piau²⁴/
	Xi'an	/piau²¹/
	Xining	/piɔ⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/piɔ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/piɔ³¹/
	Ürümqi	/piɔ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/piau⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/piau⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/piao⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/piɔ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/piɔo³¹/
	Hefei	/piɔ²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/piau¹¹/
	Pingyao	/piɔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/piɔ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/piɔ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/piæ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/piɔ³³/
	Wenzhou	/piɛ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/piɔ³¹/
	Tunxi	/piu¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/piau³³/
	Xiangtan	/piaɯ³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/piɛu⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/pʰiau⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/piu⁵³/
	Nanning	/piu⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/piu⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/piu⁵⁵/ /piau⁵⁵/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/pieu⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/piau⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/piu³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ʔbiau²³/

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• Middle Chinese: pjiw

Rime
Character	彪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	幽 (138)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	甫烋切
Baxter	pjiw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piɪu/
Pan Wuyun	/pɨu/
Shao Rongfen	/pieu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pjiw/
Li Rong	/piĕu/
Wang Li	/piəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pieu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biāo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*prɯw/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	彪
Reading #	1/1
No.	789
Phonetic component	彪
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	彪
Old Chinese	/*prɯw/

Definitions

彪

1. ^‡ tiger stripes
2. ^‡ Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii)
3. (literary, by extension) to be full of literary grace or bright colors
4. (literary) tiger; small tiger
5. (figuratively, of a person) big and tall; strong; stalwart
6. (literary) clear; evident; obvious
7. Classifier for detachment of troops.
8. a surname

Compounds

• 一彪 (yībiāo)
• 半彪子 (bànbiāozi)
• 虎彪彪
• 彪休
• 彪個子 / 彪个子
• 彪壯 / 彪壮
• 彪子
• 彪家廟 / 彪家庙 (Biāojiāmiào)
• 彪形
• 彪形大漢 / 彪形大汉 (biāoxíngdàhàn)
• 彪悍 (biāohàn)
• 彪換 / 彪换
• 彪炳 (biāobǐng)
• 彪炳千古 (biāobǐngqiāngǔ)
• 彪腹狼腰 (biāo fù láng yāo)
• 彪蒙
• 彪彪麵 / 彪彪面 (biāobiāomiàn)
• 彪身

Japanese

Kanji

彪

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ひゅう (hyū)^{←ひう (fiu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ひゅう (hyū)^{←ひう (fiu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kun: あや (aya, 彪)
• Nanori: つよし (tsuyoshi)、たけき (takeki)、かおる (kaoru)、あきら (akira)、とら (tora)、たけし (takeshi)

Korean

Hanja

彪 • (pyo) (hangeul 표, revised pyo, McCune–Reischauer p'yo, Yale phyo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

彪: Hán Nôm readings: bưu

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