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Radical 141a tiger’s stripes; the pattern atop tiger-related characters

(first tone, high and level)

a tiger’s stripes; the pattern atop tiger-related characters

Radical 1416 strokes0 characters

Where the shape comes from

The head and striped brow of a tiger, cropped from the fuller picture of the whole animal drawn in 虎. It tops that very character, tiger, and appears atop a small family of others, among them 虑, to consider, to worry, where it mostly lends its shape and sound rather than any trace of the animal’s fierceness.

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