EntryCommon
  1. Noun

    the Tiger (third sign of the Chinese zodiac)

  2. hour of the Tiger (around 4am, 3-5am, or 4-6am)

    Obsolete termsee 寅の刻

  3. east-northeast

    Obsolete term

  4. first month of the lunar calendar

    Obsolete term

Pitch on OJAD

Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

sign of the tiger, 3-5AM, third sign of Chinese zodiac

Kun
とら
On
イン
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
JLPT
N1
Frequency
1975 of 2500
Radical
roof

Built from

Used in names as

とものぶ

Dictionary and index codes (22)
CodeReference
2-3-8SKIP code
3m8.4The Kanji Dictionary
3080.6Four corner code
5bc5Unicode hex code
1-38-50JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1314Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1341New Nelson (John Haig)
2289New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2854Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1471Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1981Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2006Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2162Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1563A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1439Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1911Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
7204Morohashi
2052Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2025Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yin2Pinyin reading
in, iKorean reading
n1JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)