TIGER    老虎

INTENSELY LARGE STRIPED FELINE which CAN EAT HUMANS. [BIOLOGY]
Modern Chinese Criteria
虎 老虎 大蟲 於菟 戾蟲 山君 幼虎 小虎 乳虎 虎子 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hypernym
  • FELINE　NIMBLE BEAST which HAS FOUR LEGS, SHARP CLAWS, AND ROUND HEAD. (anc: 8/0, child: 4)
  • BEAST　BIG WILD VERTEBRATE. (anc: 7/0, child: 12)
  • VERTEBRATE　ANIMAL which HAS a SPINE BONE. (anc: 6/0, child: 2)
  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 1966) p. 243

    Tiger:

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 750

    6. Tiger

  • Verzeichnis und Motivindex der Han-Darstellungen ( FINSTERBUSCH 2000) p. 812

    Tiger:

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1396

    • Words (2 items)

    虎  hǔ OC: qhlaaʔ MC: huo̝ 30 Attributions

    By far the most common feline in ancient Chinese literature is the hǔ 虎 "tiger".

      Word relations
    • Assoc: 兕/BOVINE Sì 兕 refers to an unidentified large wild ox which was currently hunted in Shang Dynasty times.
    • Assoc: 豹/FELINE Bào 豹 refers to the leopard who has also captured the ancient Chinese imagination.
    • Assoc: 狼/WOLF
    • Oppos: 狗/DOG Gǒu 狗is a colloquial word for a dog (according to some early commentators a small dog, and it is plausible that the colloquial word may have referred to the small dog in particular).
    • Oppos: 羊/OVINE Yáng 羊 is the general word referring indifferently to what in English is a sheep, a goat, or a ram.

      Syntactic words
    • ntiger
    • nadNmade of tiger skin; adorned with tigers
    • nadVanalogylike a tiger SHIJI: 虎爭天下 "fight like tigers for the empire"
    • vibe tiger-like
    • vichangeturn into a tiger
    大蟲  dà chóng OC: daads ɡrluŋ MC: dɑi ɖuŋ 3 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPgreat beast > tiger