表

表 U+8868, 表 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8868 ← 衧 [U+8867] CJK Unified Ideographs 衩 → [U+8869]

Stroke order

表 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手一女 (QMV), four-corner 5073₂, composition ⿱龶𧘇)

• 俵 𠶓 婊 㧼 𣷴 脿 䁃 裱 諘(𲂏) 𧶫 錶 𩤕 𩩩 䱪 𣍅 𤷶

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1111, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34105
• Dae Jaweon: page 1576, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 21, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8868

Originally 𧘝, an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 衣 (“garment; clothing”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”) — outer garment.

Officially adopted as the simplified form of 錶 (etymology 2) in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (《漢字簡化方案》) in 1956.

simp. and trad.		表
alternative forms		𧘝 𧞧

表

1. (obsolete) outer garment
2. surface; outside; exterior

   外表  ―  wàibiǎo  ―  outward appearance

   月表  ―  yuèbiǎo  ―  surface of the moon

   虛有其表／虚有其表  ―  xūyǒuqíbiǎo  ―  to look impressive but lack real worth

   表裡不一／表里不一  ―  biǎolǐbùyī  ―  to think in one way but speak and act in another

3. table; list (Classifier: 個／个 m c)

   價目表／价目表  ―  jiàmùbiǎo  ―  price list

4. form (blank document to be filled in) (Classifier: 張／张 m c g; 份 m c)

   申請表／申请表  ―  shēnqǐng biǎo  ―  application form

   填表  ―  tiánbiǎo  ―  to fill in a form

5. to show; to express; to display

   表達／表达  ―  biǎodá  ―  to express

   深表同情  ―  shēn biǎo tóngqíng  ―  to show deep sympathy

6. model; example

   為人師表／为人师表  ―  wéirénshībiǎo  ―  to set an example for others to learn

7. (historical) memorial to the throne; letter to the ruler of a place or country; from an official in court to the emperor/king

   出師表／出师表  ―  Chūshī Biǎo  ―  Chu Shi Biao (either of two memorials written by Zhuge Liang and presented to Liu Shan)

8. relationship with the children of one's mother's or paternal grandmother's siblings or the children of one's father's or paternal grandfather's sisters

   表哥  ―  biǎogē  ―  male cousin (mother's sibling's or father's sister's son older than oneself)

   姨表  ―  yíbiǎo  ―  maternal cousin (mother's sister's child)

9. ^† outstanding; different
10. a surname

For pronunciation and definitions of 表 – see 錶 (“watch; wristwatch; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 錶).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

simp. and trad.		表

表

1. (Mainland China, Internet slang) Alternative form of 不要 (bùyào, “do not; don't”)

   • 74偶了，偶只能對太陽大呼：表醬紫！偶熱死了捏！就讓偶開空調8！ [MSC, trad.]
     74偶了，偶只能对太阳大呼：表酱紫！偶热死了捏！就让偶开空调8！ [MSC, simp.]

     From: 2022 September 13, 柴灣阿叔, 網絡語言千奇百怪, in 大灣區時報 [GBA Times], issue 43, page 4

     Qī sì ǒu le, ǒu zhǐnéng duì tàiyáng dàhū: Biǎo jiàngzǐ! Ǒu rè sǐ le niē! Jiù ràng ǒu kāi kōngdiào bā! [Pinyin]

     I'm so mad! I can only shout to the Sun: Don't be like this! I'm gonna die of the heat! Just let me turn on the A/C!

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “表”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 16.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō)^{←へう (feu, historical)}
• Kun: あらわす (arawasu, 表す, Jōyō)^{←あらはす (arafasu, 表す, historical)}、あらわす (arawasu, 表わす)^{←あらはす (arafasu, 表はす, historical)}、あらわれす (arawaresu, 表れす)、あらわれる (arawareru, 表れる, Jōyō)、おもて (omote, 表, Jōyō)
• Nanori: あき (aki)

Kanji in this term
表
おもて Grade: 3
kun'yomi

Ultimately from Old Japanese. Cognate with 面 (omote).^[1] Derived as a compound of 面 (omo, “face”) +‎ 手 (te, “hand; direction, side”), basically meaning "face-wards; facing side".^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

The term omote in general is attested since the Nihon Shoki of 720.^[4] The 表 spelling for this word is attested from roughly 1000.^[1]

Cognate with Okinawan 表 (umuti).

• (Tokyo) おもて [òmótéꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[7][6][8]
• IPA^(key): [o̞mo̞te̞]

表(おもて) • (omote) 

1. surface; face (visible side of an object)
2. front (of a building), obverse side of a coin ("heads")
3. cover attached to a surface
4. outer clothing
5. facade; appearance; outside; exterior
6. public; official
7. main entrance of a house; front door
8. outside a house; outdoors; street in front of a house
9. (baseball) first half, top (of an inning)
10. Short for 表千家 (omotesenke). Foundation of Fushin-an
11. front room; living room
12. (computing) foreground

• 裏(うら) (ura): back, bottom (of an inning, in baseball)

表(おもて) • (-omote) 

1. front of something

   西(いり)表(おもて)

   iri-omote

   western front

Attached to a noun to indicate direction, location, etc.

Kanji in this term
表
ひょう Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 表 (MC pjiewX). Attested in a portion of the Shoku Nihongi dated to 703.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ひょー [hyòó] (Heiban – [0])^[7][6][8]
• IPA^(key): [ço̞ː]

• Audio:

  (file)

表(ひょう) • (hyō) ^{←へう (feu)?}

1. [from 1875] table, chart, list

   表(ひょう)のセル ― hyō no seru ― table cell

   常(じょう)用(よう)漢(かん)字(じ)表(ひょう) ― jōyō kanji hyō ― list of commonly used kanji

2. [from 703] documents presented to a monarch from a vassal or other foreign dignitary

• 表(ひょう)する (hyōsuru)

表 (eumhun 겉 표 (geot pyo))

1. hanja form^? of 표 (“table, diagram, or graph”)

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
表

表: Hán Việt readings: biểu
表: Nôm readings: biểu, vẹo, vếu, bẻo, bẹo

1. chữ Hán form of biểu (“table; chart”).
2. chữ Hán form of biểu (“outward; external”).