IDENTITY
虎hǔtiger
HSK 4Top 900
CORE MEANING
tiger
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.tigerHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 虍tiger radical (hū)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- semi-enclosed compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿸虍几
- tiger stripes
- the crouching legs
USAGE
Common words
老虎lǎohǔtiger
马虎mǎhucareless
Graded examples
动物园里有老虎。Dòngwùyuán lǐ yǒu lǎohǔ.HSK3
There are tigers in the zoo.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 虑
LEARNING
Memory aid
Stripes (虍) on a crouching body (几) — the tiger.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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