虠

虠 U+8660, 虠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8660 ← 號 [U+865F] CJK Unified Ideographs 虡 → [U+8661]

Translingual

Han character

虠 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜大卜心弓 (YKYPN) or 卜大卜心山 (YKYPU), composition ⿰交虎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1075, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32731
• Dae Jaweon: page 1543, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2826, character 5
• Unihan data for U+8660

Chinese

trad.		虠
simp. #		虠

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : phonetic 交 (OC *kreːw) + semantic 虎 (“tiger”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiāo (jiao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄠ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄠ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiao
    • Wade–Giles: chiao¹
    • Yale: jyāu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiau
    • Palladius: цзяо (czjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

虠

1. ^‡ sound of tiger

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 虠 – see 號 (“name; alias; art name; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 號).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C12164
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03612-062-1

Japanese

Kanji

虠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こう (kō)