Radical 141

虍
140 ⾋ ◄	141	► ⾍ 142
Pinyin :	hū (or 虎 hǔ = tiger)
Zhuyin :	ㄏ ㄨ ˇ
Hiragana :	と ら か ん む り torakanmuri
Kanji :	虎 冠 torakanmuri (= radical tiger)
Hangul :	범
Sinocorean :	호 hu (= tiger)
Codepoint :	U + 864D
Stroke sequence :

Radical 141 , meaning " tiger ", is one of 29 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with six strokes.

With 16 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary , there are few characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "Tiger" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 141. position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Sino-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 173rd position.

The striped fur can be guessed at in the seal lettering tiger. The feet of the upright tiger still stand under today's sign. Pronounced hu , this radical does not appear as a single sign. 虍 gets its pronunciation from 虎 (hu tiger), whose reduced form it is and from which it takes its descriptive name: 虎 字 头 (huzitou = head of the tiger sign).

The tiger head 虍 rules only a few signs such as:

虏 (= take prisoner),

虑 (= thinking) and

虚 (= void).

In the original form of 虐 (= cruel), a claw (opf) and a person (人) can be recognized next to the tiger head 虍. The tiger's claw grabs people. The original meaning of 虔 (= pious) was to move tiger-like, hence the tiger head 虍. Characters like 彪 (= young tiger) that contain 虍 as a component can be looked up under this radical.

The tiger 虎 hŭ is considered bold according to the Chinese calendar . Tiger years (寅yín ) are:

• 0February 8, 1902 to January 28, 1903
• January 26, 1914 to February 13, 1915
• February 13, 1926 to 0February 1, 1927
• January 31, 1938 to February 18, 1939
• February 17, 1950 to 0February 5, 1951
• 0February 5, 1962 to January 24, 1963
• January 23, 1974 to February 10, 1975
• 0February 9, 1986 to January 28, 1987
• January 28, 1998 to February 15, 1999
• February 24, 2010 to 0February 2, 2011

Character combinations ruled by radical 141

Strokes	character
+ 00	虍
+ 02	虎 虏
+ 03	虐
+ 04	虑 虒 虓 虔
+ 05	處 虖 虗 虘 虙 虚 彪
+ 06	虛
+ 07	虜 虝 虞 號
+ 08	虠 虡
+ 09	虢 虣
+10	虤 虥 虦
+11	虧 虨
+12	虩
+20	虪

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , radical 141 is coded under the code point number 12.172 (U + 2F8C).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 164 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 105 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 141  - Graphic representations of Radikal 141

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 141 on page 116