とら
Meanings
Noun
1. tiger (Panthera tigris)
2. drunkard; drunk; sot
Pitch accent
Top 21000
Used in vocabulary (42 in total)
steel trap; foothold trap; bear trap
bristly beard; bristly mustache
tiger stripes
big tiger; drinker; staggering drunkard
tabby cat; tiger cat; striped cat
tabby cat; tiger cat; striped cat
tiger cub; one's treasure; precious savings
book of (trade) secrets; secrets; study guide (to supplement a textbook); crib; key
tiger's tail; gooseneck loosestrife (species of flowering plant, Lysimachia clethroides); Asplenium incisum (species of spleenwort)
Japanese pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes); Japanese puffer; tiger puffer
tiger cub; one's treasure; precious savings
papier-mâché tiger (toy with a loose, wobbly head); paper tiger; someone (or something) who is all bark and no bite; man of straw
Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica); Amur tiger
small tiger; light drinker; occasional drinker
person who swaggers about under borrowed authority; small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority; (lit.) a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger
tiger pattern; striped (like a tiger)
to play with fire; to do something very dangerous; to take a great risk; (lit.) to step on a tiger's tail
brown tabby cat
brown tabby cat
making the strong even stronger
Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris)
mackerel tabby (cat); grey tabby
mackerel tabby (cat); grey tabby
White's thrush (Zoothera dauma); scaly thrush
kanji "tiger" radical
Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)
between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire
Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica); Siberian tiger
tigereye; tiger's-eye
to let loose something dangerous; (lit.) to let loose a tiger in the field
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)
tiger bean; tiger's eye bean
crib notes; key (to a diagram)
tiger-striped pants; cakes or bread with a tiger pattern or face
to let a fox into the henhouse; to do something dangerous; (lit.) to let loose a tiger in the marketplace
tiger bean; tiger's eye bean
kanji "tiger" radical
dapple gray (horse coat color); dapple grey
between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire
people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); (lit.) there's a tiger in the market
tora velvet shrimp (Metapenaeopsis acclivis)
Chelonomorpha japona (species of owlet moth)
Examples (10 in total)
He likes tigers.
This is not a tiger.
We heard tigers roaring in the distance.