Keyword
tiger
- brave
- fierce
- surname
- Frequency
- #1480
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
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Mnemonic
A tiger 虍 standing on a rock 几; 虍 also provides the pronunciation
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
彪tiger唬to scare琥amber虢an ancient feudal State in Shenxi and Hunan猇to intimidate虒an amphibious beast resembling a tiger with one horn號mark
Used in vocabulary
虎
tiger
老虎
tiger
雅虎
Yahoo, Internet portal
白虎
White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia
猛虎
fierce tiger
马虎
careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy
龙虎
outstanding people; water and fire (in Daoist writing)
虎门
the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong; Humen Town 虎门镇 (HǔménZhèn)
虎牙
(coll.) eye tooth (maxillary canine tooth)
唐伯虎
Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
壁虎
gecko; house lizard
纸老虎
paper tiger
虎视眈眈
(lit.) to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey (idiom); (fig.) to eye covetously
老虎机
slot machine
杨虎城
Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general
东北虎
Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
卧虎藏龙
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安 (Lǐ'Ān)
虎年
Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)
虎口
tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
马马虎虎
careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair
虎鲸
orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca)
飞虎队
Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two; Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit
虎虎
vigorous; formidable; strong
如虎添翼
lit. like a tiger that has grown wings; with redoubled power (idiom)