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There are 8 total results for your fire tiger search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

丙寅

see styles
bǐng yín
    bing3 yin2
ping yin
 hinoetora; heiin / hinoetora; hen
    ひのえとら; へいいん
third year C3 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1986 or 2046
(See 干支・1) Fire Tiger (3rd term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1926, 1986, 2046)

龍虎


龙虎

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lóng hǔ
    long2 hu3
lung hu
 ryuuko / ryuko
    りゅうこ
outstanding people; water and fire (in Daoist writing)
dragon and tiger; two mighty rivals; (surname, female given name) Ryūko

前虎後狼

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 zenkokourou / zenkokoro
    ぜんここうろう
(expression) (yoji) one calamity followed close on the heels of another; out of the frying pan into the fire; tiger in front, wolf in the back

虎の尾を踏む

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 toranooofumu
    とらのおをふむ
(exp,v5m) (idiom) to play with fire; to take a great risk; to step on a tiger's tail

虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る

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 kokouonogareteryuuketsuniiru / kokoonogareteryuketsuniru
    ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる
(exp,v5r) (proverb) out of the frying pan into the fire; out of the tiger's mouth into the dragon's den

Variations:
前門の虎後門の狼
前門の虎、後門の狼

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 zenmonnotorakoumonnoookami / zenmonnotorakomonnoookami
    ぜんもんのとらこうもんのおおかみ
(expression) (idiom) between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire; a tiger at the front gate, a wolf at the back gate

Variations:
後門の虎前門の狼
後門の虎、前門の狼

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 koumonnotorazenmonnoookami / komonnotorazenmonnoookami
    こうもんのとらぜんもんのおおかみ
(expression) (idiom) (See 前門の虎後門の狼) between the devil and the deep sea; out of the frying pan into the fire; a tiger at the back gate, a wolf at the front gate

Variations:
虎の尾を踏む
トラの尾を踏む
とらの尾を踏む

see styles
 toranooofumu(虎no尾o踏mu, torano尾o踏mu); toranooofumu(torano尾o踏mu)
    とらのおをふむ(虎の尾を踏む, とらの尾を踏む); トラのおをふむ(トラの尾を踏む)
(exp,v5m) (idiom) to play with fire; to do something very dangerous; to take a great risk; to step on a tiger's tail

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 8 results for "fire tiger" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

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Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



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