biāo

fat

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

票 sound component

  Sound component

piào

  

slip of paper or bamboo

Evolution

膘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
膘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

biāo

fat; rump; fat of a stock animal

() 

biāo

variant of [biāo]

Most common words with 膘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

fat of a stock animal

膘肥体壮

well-fed

膘肥

fat

掉膘

to lose weight (of cattle)

上膘

to put on weight