虎

See also: 乕

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

Pictogram (象形). The modern character is an Ideogrammic compound (會意): 虍 ‎(“tiger stripes”) + 儿 ‎(“human legs”).

A tiger.

Han characterEdit

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

Derived charactersEdit

• 唬

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

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		虎
alt. forms		乕

Wikipedia ^zh

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hǔ (hu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fú
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): hó͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): houn²

• Wu (Wiktionary): hu (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: hu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huu
    • IPA ^(key): /xu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fu²
    • Yale: fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu²
    • IPA ^(key): /fuː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fú
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu³
    • IPA: /fu³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó͘
    • Tâi-lô: hóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hor
    • IPA (Taipei): /hɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: houn²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hóuⁿ
    • IPA ^(key): /hõũ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hu (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /hv̩ʷ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /huo^X/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*qʰˤraʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰlaːʔ/

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. brave, fierce
3. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

• 狼吞虎嚥 (lángtūnhǔyàn)
• 馬馬虎虎／马马虎虎 (mǎmǎhǔhǔ)
• 虎媽／虎妈 (hǔmā)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

虎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: く (ku)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: とら (tora)
• Nanori: とら (tora), たけ (take)

EtymologyEdit

Wikipedia ^ja

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

PronunciationEdit

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) とら [tòrá] (Heiban - [0])
• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾ̠a̠]
• Homophone: 寅

NounEdit

虎 ‎(hiragana とら, katakana トラ, romaji tora)

1. (zoology) tiger

CompoundsEdit

• 牡虎 (おすとら, ​osutora): a male tiger
• 雌虎 (めすとら, ​mesutora): a female tiger
• 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)

Derived termsEdit

• 虎に成る (tora ni naru)

ReferencesEdit

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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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