Chinese Character Wiki
虎

hǔ

tiger

Pictograph of a tiger.

Evolution

虎 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
虎 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
虎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
虎 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
虎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

虎  

hǔ

tiger; brave, fierce; surname; CL:隻|只[zhī]

Most common words with 虎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

虎

tiger

老虎

tiger

猛虎

fierce tiger

雅虎

Yahoo, Internet portal

龙虎

outstanding people

Component uses

Meaning component in 5 characters (2 verified)

號 虒 彪 琥 猇

Sound component in 3 characters (1 verified)

處 唬 琥

Iconic component in 2 characters (2 verified)

虢 冡

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤraʔ (W dialect: *qˤʰr- >r̥ˤ- > x-)

xuX

hǔ

tiger


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 12.4780% of movies

1592nd most common character in movies

1083rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+864E

Shuowen

“虎，山獸之君。从虍，虎足象人足，象形……虝，古文虎。，亦古文虎。”


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