First opened Friday, September 1, 2006
表
ひょう
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
table (e.g., Tab 1), chart, list
Hyō is from Middle Chinese 表, attested in a portion of the Shoku Nihongi dated to 703.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 表
In a sentence
この表から食べたいものを選べます。
You may choose what to eat from this list.
この表の数値は千単位で示されている。
The figures in this table are shown in thousands.
Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.
What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Middle Chinese 表 (MC pjiewX). Attested in a portion of the Shoku Nihongi dated to 703.”
Source: Wiktionary: 表 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 表 on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ひょう. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
おもて
- “Ultimately from Old Japanese. Cognate with 面 (omote). Derived as a compound of 面 (omo, “face”) + 手 (te, “hand; direction, side”), basically meaning "face-wards; facing side".”
- “The term omote in general is attested since the Nihon Shoki of 720. The 表 spelling for this word is attested from roughly 1000.”
- “Cognate with Okinawan 表 (umuti).”
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Borrowing
- Taken over from another language.