tiger; CL:隻|只[zhi1]

orca; killer whale (Orcinus orca)

fierce tiger

careless; sloppy; negligent; skimpy

Flying Tigers, US airmen in China during World War Two; Hong Kong nickname for police special duties unit

careless; casual; vague; not so bad; so-so; tolerable; fair

Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子

to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously; to gorge oneself

(lit.) to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey (idiom); (fig.) to eye covetously

tigress; (fig.) fierce woman; vixen

slot machine

lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom); fig. vigorous and lively

Yahoo, Internet portal

to subdue a tiger; fig. to prevail over sinister forces

crouching tiger; fig. major figure in hiding; concealed talent

gecko; house lizard

Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)

White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky); (slang) hairless female genitalia

Shi Hu (295-349), emperor of Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4]

leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis); sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits

fierce animals

see 艾鼬[ai4 you4]

see 虎丘區|虎丘区[Hu3 qiu1 Qu1]

tiger's den; dangerous place; the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand

tiger cub; brave young man

valiant general

Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010)

see 虎林市[Hu3 lin2 Shi4]

Tiger Brand (beer)

(coll.) eye tooth (maxillary canine tooth)

tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.)

vigorous; formidable; strong

vise

the Bocca Tigris, a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong; Humen Town 虎門鎮|虎门镇[Hu3 men2 Zhen4]

tiger bone (used in TCM)

variant of 琥珀[hu3 po4]

jumping spider (family Salticidae)

Land Rover

outstanding people; water and fire (in Daoist writing)

Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)

Liu Bei's five great generals in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, namely: Guan Yu 關羽|关羽, Zhang Fei 張飛|张飞, Zhao Yun 趙雲|赵云, Ma Chao 馬超|马超, Huang Zhong 黃忠|黄忠

saber-toothed tiger

South China Tiger

bench vise

stumbling block

lit. to stroke the tiger's whiskers; to do sth very daring

Yang Hucheng (1893-1949), Chinese warlord and Nationalist general

piranha (fish)

gas guzzler