Memory phrase for the character: 虎
虎
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Meaning
tiger
Pronunciation
hǔ
Explanation
Top: tiger 虍 (pictograph: jumping tiger with protruding teeth), below: hind legs 儿
Mnemonic
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Only a tiger on hind legs is a real tiger.
Radicals
虍
tiger
儿
legs Simplified from 兒 with the meaning 'son'. In the explanations used as 'two legs'.
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Vocabulary
老虎
lǎo hǔ
tiger
3883
虎口
hǔ kǒu
tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
3884
纸老虎
zhǐ lǎo hǔ
paper tiger
3885
虎踞龙蟠
hǔ jù lóng pán
lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
9199
初生之犊不怕虎
chū shēng zhī dú bù pà hǔ
A new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom). The fearlessness of youth.
9757
蝎虎座
xiē hǔ zuò
Lacerta (constellation)
9780
虎视眈眈
hǔ shì dān dān
to glare like a tiger watching his prey (idiom); to eye covetously
9877
虎视眈眈
hǔ shì dān dān
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