Radical 141

虍
← 140 Radical 141 (U+2F8C) 142 →
虍 (U+864D) "tiger"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	hū
Bopomofo:	ㄏㄨ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	hu
Wade–Giles:	hu1
Cantonese Yale:	fu2
Jyutping:	fu2, fu1
Japanese Kana:	コ ko (on'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	호 ho
Names
Chinese name(s):	虎字頭/虎字头 hǔzìtóu
Japanese name(s):	虎頭/とらがしら toragashira 虎冠/とらかんむり torakanmuri
Hangul:	호피무늬 hopi muneui
Stroke order animation

Radical 141 or radical tiger (虍部) meaning "tiger" is one of the 29 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 6 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 114 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

虍 is also the 130th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with 虎 being its associated indexing component.

Evolution

• 
  Oracle bone script character
• 
  Bronze script character
• 
  Large seal script character
• 
  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	虍
+2	虎 虏SC (=虜)
+3	彪 虐
+4	虑SC (=慮 -> 心) 虓 虔
+5	處 虖 (=呼 -> 口 / 乎 -> 丿) 虗 (=虛) 虘 虙 虚SC/JP (=虛)
+6	虛 虜 虝 (=虎)
+7	虞 號
+8	虠 虡
+9	虢 虣
+10	虤 虥 虦
+11	虧 虨
+12	虩
+20	虪

Literature

• Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
• Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.

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