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虎

虎 U+864E, 虎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-864E
← 虍
[U+864D]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 虏 →
[U+864F]
See also: 乕

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order
 

Han characterEdit

虎 (radical 141 虍+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜心竹弓 (YPHN) or 卜心竹山 (YPHU), four-corner 21217, composition ⿸虍儿(JKT) or ⿸虍几(GV))

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 虎
alt. forms 乕
 
Wikipedia has an article on:
• 虎

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 虎
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唬 *qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲 *qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇 *qʰra
隵 *qʰra
嚱 *qʰras
盧 *b·raː
鑪 *raː
壚 *raː
籚 *raː
蘆 *raː, *ra
顱 *b·raː
髗 *b·raː
鱸 *raː
攎 *raː
櫨 *raː
轤 *raː
黸 *raː
獹 *raː
鸕 *raː
艫 *raː
纑 *raː
瀘 *raː
瓐 *raː
爐 *raː
嚧 *raː
矑 *b·raː
罏 *raː
蠦 *raː
虜 *raːʔ
擄 *raːʔ
艣 *raːʔ
鐪 *raːʔ
虖 *qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍 *qʰaː
雐 *qʰʷlaː
虎 *qʰlaːʔ
琥 *qʰlaːʔ
萀 *qʰlaːʔ
臚 *b·ra
廬 *ra
驢 *b·ra
藘 *ra
爈 *ra, *ras
櫖 *ra, *ras
儢 *raʔ
慮 *ras
勴 *ras
鑢 *ras
濾 *ras
攄 *r̥ʰa
處 *kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦 *kas, *ɡa
據 *kas
鐻 *kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽 *kas, *ɡas
虛 *kʰa, *qʰa
墟 *kʰa
懅 *ɡa
蘧 *ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧 *ɡa
醵 *ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩 *ɡa
虡 *ɡaʔ
遽 *ɡas
勮 *ɡas
嘘 *qʰa, *qʰas
驉 *qʰa
歔 *qʰa
魖 *qʰa
膚 *pla
虧 *kʰʷral
噱 *ɡaɡ
臄 *ɡaɡ
劇 *ɡaɡ
諕 *qʰʷraːɡ

Pictogram (象形). 虍 represents the tiger's head. The torso has disappeared and the legs and the tail have transformed into 人 in the small seal script and later 儿 in the clerical script.

 
A tiger.

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-la (“tiger”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *klaʔ (“tiger”).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 虎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼古切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huoX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hɔX/
Li
Rong		 /xoX/
Wang
Li		 /xuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 hǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 虎
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰˤraʔ/ (W dialect: *qˤʰr- >r̥ˤ- > x-)
English tiger

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 虎
Reading # 1/1
No. 5230
Phonetic
component		 虍
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 虎
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰlaːʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

虎

  1. tiger
    老虎  ―  lǎohǔ  ―  tiger
  2. (figuratively) brave; fierce
  3. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 虎

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

DefinitionsEdit

虎

  1. Only used in 馬虎／马虎 (mǎhu).

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

DefinitionsEdit

虎

  1. Only used in 虎不拉.

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

虎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

EtymologyEdit

 
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Kanji in this term
虎
とら
Grade: S
kun'yomi
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

虎 (hiragana とら, katakana トラ, rōmaji tora)

  1. a tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris)

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

虎 (hổ, hoài, hoàng)

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