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Kanji Detail for 豹 - "leopard, panther"

豹

  • Meaning

    豹 means "leopard, panther."

    1. Leopard - A spotted wild cat.

    2. Panther - A fierce, agile predator.

  • Four-character idioms with 豹

    • 君子豹変 くんしひょうへん Listen the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them; the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

  • Origin of 豹

    豸, the crouching-beast radical, beside 勺, a ladle, which supplies the sound, giving hyo. Japanese uses this one character for both leopard and panther; a black panther is 黒豹.

    How to remember it: The long-bodied beast 豸 measured out by a ladle 勺 of spots — the leopard.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: leopard, panther
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    leopard; panther

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    leopard, panther; surname

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    leopard; panther

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    leopard, panther; surname

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    An animal. Similar to a tiger but smaller. Back is reddish-yellow with black spotted patterns like coins. Commonly called 金錢豹 (money leopard). Fierce in nature. Good at hunting other animals.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    hoh(ホウ) ホウ

    hyoh(ヒョウ) ヒョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    豸 (mujina・mujinahen)

  • Related Keywords

    leopard panther agile camouflage carnivore cat claws fast feline fierce hunting jungle powerful predator savannah spots spotted stealthy wild

Sentences including 豹

  • A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.

  • Tom is as fast as a leopard.

  • A leopard cannot change his spots.

  • He's got a dual personality - usually a quiet "nice guy" type, but when he flips, his character changes.

More kanji with the radical 豸 (mujina・mujinahen)

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