Meanings

Tiger, Drunkard

Radicals

虎

Decomposition

⿸虍几

Etymology

Ideographic: A tiger 虍 standing on a rock 几; 虍 also provides the pronunciation

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 vertical right-to-left

2 horizontal right-to-left

3 diagonal top-to-bottom

4 corner bottom-right-to-top-left

5 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

6 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

7 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

8 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

コ ko

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

とら tora

Words Using This Kanji

74 words total

Other (14 words)

虎は死して皮を留め人は死して名を残すとらはししてかわをとどめひとはししてなをのこす

he has not lived that lives not after death

虎口を逃れて竜穴に入るここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる

out of the frying pan into the fire

虎海老とらえび

tora velvet shrimp (Metapenaeopsis acclivis)

虎疫こえき

cholera

養虎ようこ

tiger rearing

養虎の患えようこのうれえ

rear a tiger and court disaster

養虎の患いようこのうれい

rear a tiger and court disaster

市に虎を放ついちにとらをはなつ

to let a fox into the henhouse

餓虎がこ

starving tiger

虎天牛とらかみきり

wasp beetle (Cerambycidae)

サバ虎サバとら

mackerel tabby (cat)

虎豆とらまめ

tiger bean

アムール虎アムールとら

Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)

虎毛とらげ

tiger stripes

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