Surname · Chinese
虎
“tiger”
虎 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan (ultimately Proto-Austroasiatic). It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
虎 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-la, meaning “tiger.”
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Where it comes from
虎 comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan, and ultimately from Proto-Austroasiatic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-la (“tiger”), from Proto-Austroasiatic *kla(ː)ʔ (“tiger”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
虎’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 虎
- Guan HuChinese film directorborn 1968
- Li Huone of the eight Zhu guo generals of Northern Wei (Warring States period); Tang Taizu Jing huangdi (d. 551)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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