虎

See also 乕

Translingual

Stroke order

A tiger.

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 虍 + 儿 (or 几)

Han character

虎 (radical 141 虍+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜心竹弓 (YPHN), 卜心竹山 (YPHU), four-corner 2121₇, composition ⿸虍儿)

1. tiger
2. brave, fierce
3. used as a surname

Synonyms

• (tiger, brave): 乕
• (year of the tiger): 寅

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/虍
• 唬

References

• KangXi: page 1073, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32675
• Dae Jaweon: page 1539, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2819, character 2
• Unihan data for U+864E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

虎 (jyutping fu2, Yale fu2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

虎 (POJ fú, Guangdong fu³, Hagfa Pinyim fu1, fu3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Alternative forms

• トラ

Noun

虎 (hiragana とら, romaji tora)

1. a tiger

Derived terms

• 虎に成る (tora ni naru)

Kanji

虎

Readings

• On: こ (ko)
• Kun: とら (tora)

Compounds

• 虎燕拳 (こえんけん, koenken)
• 虎穴 (こけつ, koketsu)
• 虎口 (ここう, kokō)
• 虎視眈々 (こしたんたん, koshitantan)
• 虎狼 (ころう, korō)
• 虎魚 (おこぜ, okoze)
• 虎巻 (とらかん, torakan)
• 虎刈り (とらがり, toragari)
• 虎狩り (とらがり, toragari)
• 虎猫 (とらねこ, toraneko)
• 虎髭 (とらひげ, torahige)
• 虎鬚 (とらひげ, torahige)
• 虎斑 (とらふ, torafu)
• 虎河豚 (とらふぐ, torafugu)
• 大虎 (おおどら, ōdora)
• 小虎 (こどら, kodora)
• 暴虎馮河 (ぼうこひょうが, bōkohyōga)
• 猛虎 (もうこ, mōko)
• 虎落 (もがり, mogari)
• 虎落笛 (もがりぶえ, mogaribue)
• 竜虎 (りゅうこ, ryūko; りょうこ, ryōko)
• 竜攘虎搏 (りゅうじょうこはく, ryūjōkohaku)
• 両虎 (りょうこ, ryōko)

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Korean

Hanja

虎 (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Mandarin

Wikipedia ^cmn

Etymology

Possibly of Austronesian origin

Hanzi

虎 (pinyin hǔ (hu3), Wade-Giles hu³)

Compounds

• 狼吞虎咽
• 馬馬虎虎 / 马马虎虎 (mǎ mǎ hǔ hǔ)

References

• Peyraube, Alain. "Ancient Chinese." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Ed. Roger D. Woodard. Cambridge UP, 2004. 1012.

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Min Nan

Hanzi

虎 (POJ hóo)

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

虎 (hổ)