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Characters, words, pinyin or English

豹 bào leopard

leopard; panther

How to remember 豹: 豸 crouching beast + 勺 ladle = leopard. At the camp a crouching beast sneaks up to the cook's pot and runs off with his ladle, and the tourists whisper "Was that a leopard?"

  • HSK 9
  • 10 strokes
  • Radical 豸

Component breakdown

豹 = 豸 crouching beast + 勺 ladle

  • 豸 crouching beast
  • 勺 ladle
    • 勹 wrap
    • 丶 a drop
The Gushi story

At the camp a crouching beast sneaks up to the cook's pot and runs off with his ladle, and the tourists whisper "Was that a leopard?"

How it is used

  • 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).