Zi:虎
虎 [hǔ] (老虎 lǎohǔ) tiger [hū] 马马虎虎 [hù] 虎不拉
3 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):
►¹hǔ 虎 {E} n. tiger M: ge/²zhī 个/只 ◆v. ①bluff; intimidate ②deceive; cheat ◆b.f. tiger-like; brave ►hǔjiàng 虎将
►⁶hū 虎 {E} char. ►mǎmahūhū 马马虎虎
►¹⁴hù 虎 char. ►hùbulǎ 虎不拉
The form on the far left is very old, from an inscription in bronze from the 商 Shāng dynasty (16th to 11th centuries B.C.). Obviously it is a picture of a tiger. But as it became distorted, people couldn’t tell what it was and interpreted it as a picture of the tiger’s stripes only. The form 虍 was then enlarged by adding 儿 feet, even though it already had feet, except that you can’t really tell where the feet are in 虍. So the modern form is 虎, while 虍 occurs as a part of other characters such as 虑 lǜ ‘consider’, etc.
虎 (or 虍) is the 141st of the 214 radicals.
►references: Guǎngyùn:266.33; Wieger:135; Karlgren:AD87,GSR57b; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2819.2; Lindqvist:105; Mathews:2161; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1073.03; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:076.1.05
►components: 虍几儿
►Cantonese: fu/
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<comp char='虍' uni='864D' variant='4' points='0,0 124,128' />
<comp char='几' uni='51E0' points='16,88 128,128' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='虍' uni='864D' variant='4'>
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<comp char='七' uni='4E03' points='31,38 105,70' />
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</cdl>
<cdl char='' uni='E9BA' variant='3'>
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<stroke type='h' points='64,12 108,12' head='cut' />
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<stroke type='sp' points='18,30 18,67 0,128' />
<!-- variant based on [U+EF31](V=0) -->
</cdl>
<cdl char='七' uni='4E03' points='0,0 128,124' radical='D1'>
<stroke type='h' points='0,64 128,44' />
<stroke type='swg' points='46,0 46,90 78,128 118,128 118,92' />
</cdl>
<cdl char='几' uni='51E0' points='0,4 128,128'>
<stroke type='sp' points='38,0 38,37 0,128' />
<stroke type='hzwg' points='38,0 88,0 88,96 100,114 128,114 128,80' head='cut' />
</cdl>
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Unicode: U+864E
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