虎（とら）
JLPT N5 · noun
Pitch accent: heiban (flat) — starts low, stays high, no drop
Meaning: tiger
Example sentences
- 虎の体には黒い縞模様がある。 — A tiger's body has black stripes.
- 虎は森の中にすんでいる。 — Tigers live in the forest.
Idioms & proverbs containing “虎”
- 市に虎あり (いちにとらあり) — people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market
- 養虎の患い (ようこのうれい) — rear a tiger and court disaster
- 養虎の患え (ようこのうれえ) — rear a tiger and court disaster
- 虎穴に入らずんば (こけつにいらずんば) — nothing ventured, nothing gained; you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den
- 虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る (ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる) — out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den
- 虎は千里往って千里還る (とらはせんりいってせんりかえる) — a parent will do anything for their child; a tiger will walk a thousand leagues and a thousand leagues back (for its cub)
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