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Meaning
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Pronunciation
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hǔ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Explanation |
Top: tiger 虍 (pictograph: jumping tiger with protruding teeth), below: hind legs 儿 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only a tiger on hind legs is a real tiger. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Radicals
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Vocabulary
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| lǎo hǔ | tiger | |
| 虎口 | hǔ kǒu | tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand |
| 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. |
| 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 |
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