虎 means “tiger”

とら · tora

Also: drunkard

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

とら

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

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JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 8 strokes

The story

A tiger's striped head (虍) over its legs (儿): a picture of the big cat. A 虎の巻, a tiger scroll, is a crib sheet or secret manual, and 虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず says you can't get the cub without entering the tiger's den.

Used in 虎 (tora, tiger), 虎の巻 (tora no maki, crib sheet/secret manual), and 猛虎 (mouko, fierce tiger)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.