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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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A tiger.

Etymology [edit]

Pictogram (象形): + (or )

Oracle hu3 tiger.svg

Han character [edit]

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

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

Synonyms [edit]

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

Derived terms [edit]

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(jyutping fu2, Yale fu2)


Hakka [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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

References [edit]


Japanese [edit]

Alternative forms [edit]

Noun [edit]

(hiragana とら, romaji tora)

  1. a tiger

Derived terms [edit]

Kanji [edit]

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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


Mandarin [edit]

Mandarin Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia cmn

Etymology [edit]

Possibly of Austronesian origin

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (hu3), Wade-Giles hu3)

Compounds [edit]

References [edit]

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

Min Nan [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(POJ hóo)

References [edit]


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(hổ)