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Key facts
- Chinese
- 虎
- Hanyu pinyin
- hǔ
- Wade giles
- hu
- Ipa
- [xu ̀ ]
- Romanization
- fú
- Yale romanization
- fú
- Jyutping
- fu2
- Hokkien poj
- hó͘
- Fuzhou buc
- hū
- Jian ou romanized
- kǔ
- Baxter 1992
- * xaʔ
- Baxter sagart 2014
- * qʰˤraʔ
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Earthly Branches
- Followed by
- Rabbit
- Follows
- Ox
- Image
- OMBRE CHINOISE TIGRE.jpg
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Zodiac tiger, showing the hǔ (虎) character for tiger The Tiger (虎) is the third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Tiger is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 寅.
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