豹
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leopard; panther
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 豸 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 豹
- Common rank
- #2,050
- Unicode
- U+8C79
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
leopard · Heisig RSH #1902
leopard + 勺 ladle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 豹
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 西门豹 | Ximen Bao (active around 422 BC), statesman and hydraulic engineer of Wei 魏國|魏国[Wei4 guo2] | |
| 海豹科 | Phocidae, family within Carnivora including seal | |
| 海豹部队 | see 海豹突擊隊|海豹突击队[Hai3 bao4 tu1 ji1 dui4] | |
| 吃熊心豹子胆 | to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom); to pluck up some courage | |
| 远东豹 | Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) | |
| 金钱豹 | leopard | |
| 海豹突击队 | (US Navy) SEAL commando unit | |
| 斑海豹 | spotted seal (Phoca largha) | |
| 象海豹 | elephant seal | |
| 美洲豹 | jaguar (Panthera onca) | |
| 豹子 | leopard; CL:頭|头[tou2] | |
| 狼虫虎豹 | (idiom) ferocious beasts | |
| 海豹 | (zoology) seal | |
| 花豹 | leopard; CL:隻|只[zhi1] | |
| 全豹 | the full picture (i.e. the whole situation); panorama | |
| 云豹 | clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) | |
| 管中窥豹 | lit. to see a leopard through a narrow tube (idiom); fig. to miss the big picture | |
| 雪豹 | snow leopard | |
| 窥豹一斑 | lit. see one spot on a leopard (idiom); fig. a restricted view | |
| 鹿豹座 | Camelopardalis (constellation) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 勺 — compare how they read.