豹 bào leopard
leopard; panther
怎么记住“豹”: 豸 badger + 勺 ladle = leopard. At the camp a badger sneaks up to the cook's pot and runs off with his ladle, and the tourists whisper "Was that a leopard?"
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
豹 = 豸 badger + 勺 ladle
- 豸 badger meaning
- 勺 ladle sound
- 勹 wrap
- 丶 dot
At the camp a badger sneaks up to the cook's pot and runs off with his ladle, and the tourists whisper "Was that a leopard?"
How it came to be
The oracle bone form is a drawing of the animal itself; later the beast sign gives the meaning and the ladle the sound.
用法
- Leopard/panther: 猎豹 (lièbào) cheetah, 金钱豹 (jīnqiánbào) leopard, 豹纹 (bàowén) leopard print.
- 管中窥豹 (guǎnzhōng-kuībào), glimpsing a leopard through a tube, means seeing only a part of the whole (窥一斑而知全豹 to infer the whole from one spot).