biāo

mark, symbol

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

tree

票 sound component

  Sound component

piào

  

slip of paper or bamboo

Evolution

標 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
標 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
標 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
標 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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biāo

a mark, symbol, label, sign; standard; mark; sign; label; to mark with a symbol, label, lettering etc; to bear (a brand name, registration number etc); prize; award; bid; target; quota; (old) the topmost branches of a tree; visible symptom; classifier for military units

Most common words with 標
Freq.
Word
Meaning

目标

target

标准

norm

标志

sign

指标

quota

mark

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 56.7516% of movies

656th most common character in movies

473rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+6A19

Shuowen

“,木杪末也,从木聲。”


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