See also

Translingual

Stroke order
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A tiger.

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): + (or )

Oracle hu3 tiger.svg

Han character

(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

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

Derived terms

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

(jyutping fu2, Yale fu2)


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Hakka

Hanzi

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

References


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Japanese

Alternative forms

Noun

(hiragana とら, romaji tora)

  1. a tiger

Derived terms

Kanji

Readings

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

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


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Mandarin

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Etymology

Possibly of Austronesian origin

Hanzi

(pinyin (hu3), Wade-Giles hu3)

Compounds

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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Vietnamese

Han character

(hổ)

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