Chinese Character 唬 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

唬 meaning[3] in English

A Tiger's Roar.

To Scare.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and tiger (虎)

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RYPU

How to write 唬

To writehu3a tiger's … you should write a combination of kou3mouth , hu3tiger arranged in a shape:

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唬 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 唬 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:hu3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: A Tiger'S Roar . To Scare

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:hu3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Tiger . Cl:隻|只[Zhi1]

Pinyin:hu1
Meaning[3]: Stripes Of A Tiger . 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141)

Pinyin:er2
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 人[Ren2] . 'Person' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 10), Occurring In 兒, 兀, 兄 Etc

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 唬in English or Chinese