The character "Tiger" has 8 strokes. The order of strokes is: vertical, horizontal, horizontal hook/horizontal hook, left, horizontal, vertical curved hook, slash, horizontal bent hook/horizontal oblique hook. .
Tiger is a universal standard first-level character in Chinese. This character first appeared in oracle bone inscriptions in the Shang Dynasty. The original meaning of this word refers to the feline tiger. Later, it can be used to describe mighty and brave, and it can also be used to describe a severe and ferocious expression.
Shuowenjiezi:
Tiger, a pictographic character. It looks like a tiger, with a huge mouth, sharp teeth, sharp claws and a long tail, and has patterns on its body. They are all written vertically from head to tail. The word "tiger" first appeared in the Shang Dynasty. In the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, there were already some very simple writing methods, using a single line to represent the patterned body, which became the basic form after the Zhou Dynasty.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the claw shape was gradually omitted, and in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, the hind leg shape was omitted, and the long tail was no longer upturned, and the tiger's head looked like a sideways human figure. In the early Spring and Autumn Period, we can still see the form of inheriting the hind legs from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the writings of the Jin Dynasty during the Warring States Period still have this legacy. After the Qin Dynasty, the official script from the Han Dynasty to the Wei Dynasty all inherited the Qin Li script, with the lower part written as "or" and the regular script as "?"; the regular script character "虎", although not written in the Han Li script, was originally written in the Xiaozhuan script.
The Zhengding characters of the Tang Dynasty used "tiger" as the main character and "?" as the variant form. After the Tang Dynasty, the character "?" gradually became obsolete and was only used in the art of calligraphy. The original meaning is a tiger, known as the king of beasts, which is extended to an insect that harms things. Later, it can be used to describe mighty, brave, cruel and violent.