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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
- —虎穴lion's den; very dangerous place or situation; tiger's den
- —虎口tiger's den; jaws of death; dangerous place
- —猛虎fierce tiger; ferocious tiger; Hanshin Tigers (baseball team)
- —両虎two equal rivals; two tigers
- —竜虎dragon and tiger; two mighty rivals
- —虎狼tigers and wolves; cruel and greedy brute
- —白虎White Tiger (Taoist god said to rule over the western heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the western heavens
- —虎児tiger cub
- —虎榜card indicating a pass in the higher Chinese civil service examinations
- —騎虎riding a tiger
- —虎嘯tiger's howling; being out and active in the world (of a hero, etc.)
- —虎皮tiger fur
- —人虎werecat
- —虎豹tigers and leopards; daring person (animal, etc.); ferocious (person)
- —餓虎starving tiger
- —養虎tiger rearing; keeping a tiger
- —虎疫cholera
- —虎燕拳Tiger Swallow Fist
- —剣歯虎saber-toothed tiger (sabre)
- —猛虎弁thick Osaka dialect (as supposedly spoken by Hanshin Tigers fans)