虎
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tiger; CL:隻|只[zhi1]
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Dict coverage rank #456 U+864E
How 虎 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A tiger 虍 standing on a rock 几; 虍 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
tiger · Heisig RSH #1459
magic wand + diced + wind + zoo — as a component also called: tiger
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 虎 as their sound component
These characters all use 虎 (hǔ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 虎 sound component | hǔ | tiger; brave, fierce; surname |
| 唬 | hǔ | to intimidate; to scare |
Words containing 虎
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 三人成虎 | sān rén chéng hǔ | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact |
| 打马虎眼 | dǎ mǎ hu yǎn | to play dumb; to slack off (idiom) |
| 虎不拉 | hù bu lǎ | (dialect) shrike; Taiwan pr. [hu3 bu5 la1] |
| 老虎机 | lǎo hǔ jī | slot machine |
| 电老虎 | diàn lǎo hǔ | electricity hog; electricity guzzler |
| 一山不容二虎 | yī shān bù róng èr hǔ | lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom); fig. this town ain't big enough for the t… |
| 虎字头 | hǔ zì tóu | name of "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141); see also 虍[hu1] |
| 虎毒不食子 | hǔ dú bù shí zǐ | a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs (idiom); even wild beasts look after their… |
| 虎林市 | Hǔ lín Shì | Hulin, a county-level city in Jixi City 雞西市|鸡西市[Ji1 xi1 Shi4], Heilongjiang |
| 水虎鱼 | shuǐ hǔ yú | piranha (fish) |
| 吃角子老虎 | chī jiǎo zi lǎo hǔ | slot machine |
| 生龙活虎 | shēng lóng huó hǔ | lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom); fig. vigorous and lively |
| 虎子 | hǔ zǐ | tiger cub; brave young man |
| 拉大旗作虎皮 | lā dà qí zuò hǔ pí | lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom); fig. to borrow sb's prestige; to… |
| 马虎 | mǎ hu | careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy |
| 马马虎虎 | mǎ ma hū hū | careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair |
| 东北虎 | dōng běi hǔ | Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) |
| 白虎 | Bái hǔ | White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia |
| 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 | míng zhī shān yǒu hǔ , piān xiàng hǔ shān xíng | lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom); fig… |
| 油老虎 | yóu lǎo hǔ | gas guzzler |