(biāo) - mark, sign, target (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
biāoTraditional: 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
标
Examples
。
Our goal is very clear.
。
Please set a new goal.
。
He did not reach the target.
瓶。
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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