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(biāo) - mark, sign, target (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

biāo

Traditional: 标

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Translation

mark, sign, target (bound morpheme)

Word origin

A phono-semantic character: the wood radical 木 gives the meaning, since markers were originally posts or the tip of a tree, and 票 (piào) supplies the sound. It means a mark, sign or target.

Origin
phono-semantic
Root
木 (wood radical) + 票 (piào, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 标

Examples

Our goal is very clear.

Please set a new goal.

He did not reach the target.

píng

The mark on the bottle is gone.

Please look at the sign by the road.

标 (biāo) is a bound morpheme meaning mark or target; it forms 目标 (mùbiāo), goal, and 标准 (biāozhǔn), standard.

Appears in 1 word

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 标.

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This word is part of lesson 106.