虎

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

Translingual

Stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

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 characters

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

Chinese

trad. 虎
simp. # 虎
alt. forms 乕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 虎
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Ancient 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 1

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

Pronunciation

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/

Definitions

虎

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

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

虎

  1. Only used in 馬虎／马虎 (mǎhu).

Compounds

  • 打馬虎／打马虎
  • 打馬虎眼／打马虎眼
  • 馬虎／马虎 (mǎhu)
  • 馬虎從事／马虎从事
  • 馬虎湯／马虎汤

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

虎

  1. Only used in 虎不拉.

Japanese

Kanji

虎

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

虎 (hiragana とら, katakana トラ, rōmaji tora)

  1. a tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris)

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

虎 (hổ)

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