HSK Guide

部首 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

部首 1416 画0 汉字

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.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.