虎

Derived characters

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Glyph origin
. represents the tiger's head. The torso has disappeared and the legs and the tail have transformed into in the small seal script and later  in the clerical script.

Etymology 1


From, from. Cognate with in. Compare ("tiger").

compares it to 🇨🇬; however, Zheng Zining deems that comparison "probably spurious".

Definitions

 * 1) tiger
 * 2)  brave; fierce
 * 3)  to show a stern or fierce look
 * 4)  overbold; stupid
 * 1)  overbold; stupid
 * 1)  overbold; stupid

Kanji

 * 1) tiger

Etymology
From to1ra,  from.

includes to1ra among words with o1 excepted from the /-o-/ to /-u-/ vowel-raising rule and not originating from earlier diphthongs. According to, West Old Japanese *to1ra, instead of expected *tura, is "anomalous" and possibly "a case of a sporadic analogical development".

asserts that this word is same as a Silla place name 刀良, which matches the Old Japanese phonographic spelling.

Noun

 * 1) a tiger

Etymology
From.

Kanji

 * 1) tiger

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tiger

Etymology
From.

includes to1ra among words with o1 excepted from the /-o-/ to /-u-/ vowel-raising rule and not originating from earlier diphthongs. According to, West Old Japanese *to1ra, instead of expected *tura, is "anomalous" and possibly "a case of a sporadic analogical development".

asserts that this word is same as a Silla place name 刀良, which matches the Old Japanese phonographic spelling.

Noun

 * 1) tiger
 * 2) year of the Tiger
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Reconstruction notes
This term is attested in the only logographically, as 虎.

In the, the latter sense is attested phonographically, as a personal name variously called to1ra and to1ra-me2. See also the etymology for further attestations.

Han character

 * 1) tiger