表

Meanings

1. surface
2. face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
3. front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
4. outside; exterior
5. appearance

Part of speech: noun

Kanji

• 表

  Meanings

  surface, table, chart, diagram

  On reading

  ヒョウ

  Kun reading

  おもて、-おもて、あらわ.す、あらわ.れる、あら.わす

  Strokes

  8

Example sentences

• この紙はどちらが表だか見分けがつかない。

  I cannot tell which is the right side of this paper.

  Tatoeba #221729 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 私はその問題がわかっていない。裏と表の区別もついていない。

  I don't understand the problem; I could make neither head nor tail of it.

  Tatoeba #159842 · CC BY 2.0 FR

• 一体何が今晩表であんなひどい音をたてているのか見当もつきません。

  I don't know what kind of creature is making such a terrible noise outside tonight.

  Tatoeba #190361 · CC BY 2.0 FR