Chinese Character 虎 Meanings and components.

Form

虎

Meaning

虎 meaning[3] in English

Tiger.

Cl:隻|只[Zhi1].

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 虎 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are stripes of a … (虍) , and variant of 人[ren2] (儿)

Its radical[1] is: 虍 (hu1) which means: Stripes Of A Tiger, 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141), .虍hu1stripes of …

In cangjie it is written with YPHU

How to write 虎

To write虎hu3tiger you should write a combination of 虍hu1stripes of … , 儿er2variant of … arranged in a 吕 shape:

虍 + 儿 = 虎

虎 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

虎
Pinyin:hu3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Tiger . Cl:隻|只[Zhi1]
虍
Pinyin:hu1
Meaning[3]: Stripes Of A Tiger . 'Tiger' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 141)
儿
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: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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