hǔ
jewel in shape of tiger
A tiger's eye 虎 stone 王; 虎 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4456th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+7425 |
Shuowen | “琥,發兵瑞玉。為虎文。从玉,从虎,虎亦聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘賜子家雙琥。’” |
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