Memory phrase for the Kanji: 虎

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Top: tiger 虍 (pictograph: jumping tiger with protruding teeth), below: hind legs 儿

Only a tiger on hind legs is a real tiger.

虍	tiger
儿	legs	Simplified from 兒 with the meaning 'son'. In the explanations used as 'two legs'.

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老虎	lǎo hǔ	tiger
虎口	hǔ kǒu	tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand
纸老虎	zhǐ lǎo hǔ	paper tiger
虎踞龙蟠	hǔ jù lóng pán	lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain
初生之犊不怕虎	chū shēng zhī dú bù pà hǔ	A new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom). The fearlessness of youth.
蝎虎座	xiē hǔ zuò	Lacerta (constellation)
虎视眈眈	hǔ shì dān dān	to glare like a tiger watching his prey (idiom); to eye covetously
虎视眈眈	hǔ shì dān dān

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