TIGER  老虎

INTENSELY LARGE STRIPED FELINE which CAN EAT HUMANS. [BIOLOGY]
Hypernym
  • FELINENIMBLE BEAST which HAS FOUR LEGS, SHARP CLAWS, AND ROUND HEAD.
    • BEASTBIG WILD VERTEBRATE.
      • VERTEBRATEANIMAL which HAS a SPINE BONE.
        • ANIMALCREATURE ABLE to FEEL AND MOVE....
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 ／

  • 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

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

Existing SW for

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