虎 – tiger, drunkard

8 strokesJōyō (secondary school)#1653 in newspaper frequencyN3 vocabulary

The kanji 虎 means tiger, drunkard. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is コ (ko); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is とら (tora). It is written with 8 strokes, under radical 虍 (no. 141).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	コ	ko
Kun’yomi	とら	tora

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 虍 (Kangxi radical 141). Components: 卜・儿・匕・厂・虍.

Words using 虎

虎とらtiger (Panthera tigris)

Example sentences

万一虎がおりから出てきたらどうしますか。

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

Tatoeba #81159

Kanji with the same radical

虚虜

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.