虍

虍 U+864D, 虍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-864D ← 虌 [U+864C] CJK Unified Ideographs 虎 → [U+864E]

⾌ U+2F8C, ⾌ KANGXI RADICAL TIGER ← ⾋ [U+2F8B] Kangxi Radicals ⾍ → [U+2F8D]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

虍 (Kangxi radical 141, 虍+0, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 卜心 (YP), four-corner 2121₄, composition ⿸⿱⺊⿱乛丿七)

1. Kangxi radical #141, ⾌.

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/虍
• 𩲼, 豦, 雐, 慮, 膚, 鬳, 獻, 盧, 𡢢, 䱷(䲣)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1073, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32674
• Dae Jaweon: page 1539, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2819, character 1
• Unihan data for U+864D

Chinese

trad.		虍
simp. #		虍

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 虍
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (虍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
唬	*qʰraːs, *kʷraːɡ
戲	*qʰral, *qʰrals, *qʰaː
巇	*qʰra
隵	*qʰra
嚱	*qʰras
盧	*b·raː
鑪	*raː
壚	*raː
籚	*raː
蘆	*raː, *ra
顱	*b·raː
髗	*b·raː
鱸	*raː
攎	*raː
櫨	*raː
轤	*raː
黸	*raː
獹	*raː
鸕	*raː
艫	*raː
纑	*raː
瀘	*raː
瓐	*raː
爐	*raː
嚧	*raː
矑	*b·raː
罏	*raː
蠦	*raː
虜	*raːʔ
擄	*raːʔ
艣	*raːʔ
鐪	*raːʔ
虖	*qʰaː, *qʰʷa, *qʰaː, *qʰʷa
虍	*qʰaː
雐	*qʰʷlaː
虎	*qʰlaːʔ
琥	*qʰlaːʔ
萀	*qʰlaːʔ
臚	*b·ra
廬	*ra
驢	*b·ra
藘	*ra
爈	*ra, *ras
櫖	*ra, *ras
儢	*raʔ
慮	*ras
勴	*ras
鑢	*ras
濾	*ras
攄	*r̥ʰa
處	*kʰljaʔ, *kʰljas
豦	*kas, *ɡa
據	*kas
鐻	*kas, *ɡa, *ɡaʔ
澽	*kas, *ɡas
虛	*kʰa, *qʰa
墟	*kʰa
懅	*ɡa
蘧	*ɡa, *ɡʷa
籧	*ɡa
醵	*ɡa, *ɡas, *ɡaɡ
璩	*ɡa
虡	*ɡaʔ
遽	*ɡas
勮	*ɡas
噓	*qʰa, *qʰas
驉	*qʰa
歔	*qʰa
魖	*qʰa
膚	*pla
虧	*kʰʷral
噱	*ɡaɡ
臄	*ɡaɡ
劇	*ɡaɡ
諕	*qʰʷraːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – tiger's head. Compare 虎 which includes the body.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hū (hu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fu¹ / fu²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ho͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): houn¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hū
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hu
    • Wade–Giles: hu¹
    • Yale: hū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hu
    • Palladius: ху (xu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu¹ / fu²
    • Yale: fū / fú
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu¹ / fu²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu¹ / fu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː⁵⁵/, /fuː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fu
    • Hakka Romanization System: fu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ho͘
    • Tâi-lô: hoo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hof
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /hɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /hɔ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /hɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /hɔ⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /hɔ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: houn¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: houⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hõũ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xu

Rime
Character	虍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	荒烏切
Baxter	xu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huo/
Pan Wuyun	/huo/
Shao Rongfen	/xo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɔ/
Li Rong	/xo/
Wang Li	/xu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	虍
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hū
Middle Chinese	‹ xu ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰˁra/ (dialect *qˁʰr- >r̥ˁ- > x-)
English	tiger
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	虍
Reading #	1/1
No.	5228
Phonetic component	虍
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	呼
Old Chinese	/*qʰaː/

Definitions

虍

1. (historical dictionaries only) pattern of tiger fur

Japanese

Kanji

虍

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): こ (ko)、く (ku)
• Kun: とらかんむり (torakanmuri)

Korean

Hanja

虍 (eumhun 호피 무늬 호 (hopi munui ho))

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Vietnamese

Han character

虍: Hán Nôm readings: hô, hổ

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