Chinese Character Wiki
表

biǎo

exterior surface

Depicts clothes (衣) made from fur (毛), typically the outermost layer of clothing. In simplified Chinese 表 is also used to mean "wristwatch", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 錶.

Components
毛 meaning component

毛  Meaning component

máo

  

hair

衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

Evolution

表 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
表 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
表 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

表  

biǎo

show, express, manifest, display; exterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion); a model; a table (listing information); a form; a meter (measuring sth)

表 (錶) 

biǎo

a watch, clock; wrist or pocket watch

Most common words with 表
Freq.
Word
Meaning

表现

to show

表示

to express

表演

play

代表

delegate

表

a model

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

裱

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

錶 婊 裱

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*p(r)awʔ

pjewX

biǎo

exterior


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 88.4350% of movies

252nd most common character in movies

177th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

表

Traditional

表錶

Unicode

U+8868

Shuowen

“表，上衣也。从衣，从毛‧古者衣裘，以毛為表。，古文表从麃。”


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