Kanji1 / 8
虎 kanji
tiger, drunkard
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コ
Kun readings
とら
Variant forms
乕虝Words with 虎
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —虎狼痢cholera
- —竜攘虎搏fierce fighting
- —虎視眈々vigilantly (watching for an opportunity); eagerly; with an eagle eye
- —暴虎馮河foolhardy courage
- —前虎後狼one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back
- —羊質虎皮sheep in a tiger's skin; gimcrack; showy without real worth; all show and no substance
- —竜虎の争いwell-matched contest; fight between a dragon and a tiger
- —竜虎相打つa fight between equally great opponents; dragon and tiger fighting one another
- —騎虎の勢いhaving no choice but to carry on; having no choice but to go on; being unable to change one's course of action; (with the) momentum of (a man) riding a tiger
- —虎鬚を編むto do something foolhardy; to braid a tiger's whiskers
- —虎穴に入らずんばnothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
- —群羊を駆って猛虎を攻むto group together against a stronger enemy
- —虎口を逃れて竜穴に入るout of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den
- —虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ずnothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
- —猟虎sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
- —龍虎dragon and tiger; two mighty rivals
- —虎列刺cholera
- —虎視眈眈vigilantly (watching for an opportunity); eagerly; with an eagle eye
- —竜虎相搏つa fight between equally great opponents; dragon and tiger fighting one another
- —龍虎相打つa fight between equally great opponents; dragon and tiger fighting one another