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Dictionary: “虎”

虎

とら

tiger (panthera tigris)

Example sentence

If a tiger should come out of the cage, what would you do?

Kanji details

Kun/On information

虎
On
こ
Kun
とら
Stroke count
8

・tiger

・drunkard

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Related words to 虎

49 related words

虎

とら

→

drunkard;drunk;sot

虎巻

とらかん

→

crib notes;key (to a diagram)

虎ノ門事件

とらのもんじけん

→

Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)

虎柄

とらがら

→

tiger pattern;striped (like a tiger)

虎天牛

とらかみきり

→

wasp beetle (Cerambycidae)

虎狩り

とらがり

→

tiger hunt

虎斑木菟

とらふずく

→

long-eared owl (Asio otus);northern long-eared owl

虎の尾羊歯

とらのおしだ

→

Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)

虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず

こけつにいらずんばこじをえず

→

nothing ventured, nothing gained

虎河豚

とらふぐ

→

Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes);Japanese puffer;tiger puffer

虎冠

とらかんむり

→

kanji "tiger" radical

虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る

ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる

→

out of the frying pan into the fire

虎は死して皮を留め人は死して名を残す

とらはししてかわをとどめひとはししてなをのこす

→

he has not lived that lives not after death;the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it

虎ばさみ

とらばさみ

→

steel trap;foothold trap;bear trap

虎皮

こひ

→

tiger fur

虎斑

とらふ

→

tiger stripes

虎の尾を踏む

とらのおをふむ

→

to play with fire;to do something very dangerous;to take a great risk

虎斑鮫

とらふざめ

→

zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum)

虎狼

ころう

→

tigers and wolves

虎榜

こぼう

→

card indicating a pass in the higher Chinese civil service examinations

虎落

もがり

→

bamboo fence;extortion

虎児

こじ

→

tiger cub

虎落笛

もがりぶえ

→

winter wind whistling through a bamboo fence

虎刈り

とらがり

→

unevenly cropped (hair);badly cropped

虎に翼

とらにつばさ

→

making the strong even stronger

虎口

ここう

→

tiger's den;jaws of death;dangerous place

虎疫

こえき

→

cholera

虎嘯

こしょう

→

tiger's howling

虎目石

とらめいし

→

tigereye;tiger's-eye

虎子

まる

→

bedpan;chamber pot;potty

虎海老

とらえび

→

tora velvet shrimp (Metapenaeopsis acclivis)

虎の威を借る狐

とらのいをかるきつね

→

person who swaggers about under borrowed authority;small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority

虎穴

こけつ

→

lion's den;very dangerous place or situation

虎の子

とらのこ

→

tiger cub

虎は千里往って千里還る

とらはせんりいってせんりかえる

→

a parent will do anything for their child

虎を画きて狗に類す

とらをえがきていぬにるいす

→

attempting to be something you are not

虎燕拳

こえんけん

→

Tiger Swallow Fist

虎斑蛙

とらふがえる

→

Indian bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus);bull frog;golden frog

虎を野に放つ

とらをのにはなつ

→

to let loose something dangerous

虎杖

いたどり

→

Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica);flowering bamboo

虎蛾

とらが

→

Chelonomorpha japona (species of owlet moth)

虎柄パンツ

とらがらパンツ

→

tiger-striped pants

虎パン

とらパン

→

tiger-striped pants

虎豆

とらまめ

→

tiger bean;tiger's eye bean

虎視眈々

こしたんたん

→

vigilantly (watching for an opportunity);eagerly;with an eagle eye

虎葦毛

とらあしげ

→

dapple gray (horse coat color);dapple grey

虎の巻

とらのまき

→

book of (trade) secrets;secrets

虎の尾

とらのお

→

tiger's tail

虎列剌茸

これらたけ

→

Galerina fasciculata (poisonous mushroom)