Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

標: signpost, seal

Also: mark, stamp, imprint, symbol, emblem, trademark, evidence, souvenir, target

JLPT N115 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 票 gives the sound

15 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ヒョウhyou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 標準ひょうじゅんstandard, level
  • 標準語ひょうじゅんごstandard language
  • 標識ひょうしきsign, mark
  • 標語ひょうごmotto, slogan, catchword
  • 標本ひょうほんexample, specimen
  • 標高ひょうこうelevation, height above sea level
  • 標的ひょうてきtarget
  • 目標もくひょうmark, objective, target
  • 座標ざひょうcoordinate
  • 指標しひょうindex, indices
  • 墓標ぼひょうgrave-marker, gravestone
  • 商標しょうひょうtrademark

Also read しるべ, しるし, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
More in the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

All 124
票

Also built on ballot (票)

標 takes the 票 family's reading, ヒョウ (hyou).

Also read ヒョウ

11 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
標 signpost · 木
vs漂 drift · 氵
標 has 木 where 漂 has 氵.
In ChineseSimplified 标 · traditional, as in Japanese · biāo

Japan keeps the traditional form 標; mainland China simplifies it to 标.

Simplified
标 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
標 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin biāo most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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