biāo
noun #25,539

Meanings

  1. 1 bit (part of a horse's bridle)
  2. 2 the cheek piece of a bit

Examples

Tāmen gè bēn qiánchéng, fēndào yángbiāo.
They each went their own way, parting paths.
Mǎ jiáozi shàng de biāo kòngzhì zhe mǎ de fāngxiàng.
The bit on the horse's bridle controls the horse's direction.

Tips

usage
appears most commonly in the idiom 分道扬镳 (fēndào yángbiāo), meaning to part ways — literally, to go separate roads and wave one's bridle bits apart. The standalone word is rarely used outside of this phrase.

Stroke Order

biāo