noun
Refers specifically to the leopard (Panthera pardus). In everyday Japanese, the kana spelling ひょう is very common.
アフリカのサバンナで豹を見た。
I saw a leopard on the African savanna.
豹は木の上で休むことが多い。
Leopards often rest in trees.
The kanji 豹 is a phono-semantic compound: the left radical 豸 (beast) and the right phonetic 勺 (shaku), which historically suggested a spotted animal. The reading ひょう is the Sino-Japanese on'yomi.