# 猛虎
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): měnghǔ
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ ㄏㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): maang$^5$ fu$^2$
* Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mên-fú
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): béng-hó͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: měnghǔ [Phonetic: ménghǔ]
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ ㄏㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: měnghǔ
*** Wade–Giles: mêng$^3$-hu$^3$
*** Yale: měng-hǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meenghuu
*** Palladius: мэнху (mɛnxu)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɤŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ xu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: maang$^5$ fu$^2$
*** Yale: máahng fú
*** Cantonese Pinyin: maang$^5$ fu$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mang$^5$ fu$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /maːŋ¹³ fuː³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mên-fú
*** Hakka Romanization System: men$^ˊ$ fu$^ˋ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: men$^1$ fu$^3$
*** Sinological IPA: /men²⁴ fu³¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: béng-hó͘
*** Tâi-lô: bíng-hóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: befnghor
*** IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ hɔ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ⁵³⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ hɔ⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: maengX xuX
Rime :
| Character | 猛 | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (109) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | II | I |
| Fanqie | 莫幸切 | 呼古切 |
| Baxter | maengX | xuX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠæŋ$^X$/ | /huo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚaŋ$^X$/ | /huo$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /maŋ$^X$/ | /xo$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /maɨjŋ$^X$/ | /hɔ$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /mɐŋ$^X$/ | /xo$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mɐŋ$^X$/ | /xu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mɐŋ$^X$/ | /xuo$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | měng | hǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mang$^5$ | fu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋʔ qʰlaːʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | hǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰˁraʔ/ (W dialect: *qˁʰr- >r̥ˁ- > x-) |
| English | tiger |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 猛 | 虎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 9148 | 5230 |
| Phonetic component | 皿 | 虍 |
| Rime group | 陽 | 魚 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | | 虎 |
| Old Chinese | /*mraːŋʔ/ | /*qʰlaːʔ/ |
| Notes | 原作莫幸切（幸在耿韻），依切三全王改 | |

### Noun

猛虎
* (literally) fierce tiger
    From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
    Qiě fú wéi cóng zhě, wú yǐ yìyú qū qún yáng ér gōng měnghǔ, hǔ zhī yǔ yáng bù gé míng yǐ. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    From: 1931 August, Xu Zhimo, 《猛虎》 (translation of The Tyger)
    Měnghǔ, měnghǔ, huǒyàn shìde shāohóng / zài shēnyè de mǎngcóng, / héděng shénmíng de jùyǎn huòshì shǒu / néng bòhuà nǐ de hàirén de xiónghòu? [Pinyin]
    Tyger Tyger. burning bright, / In the forests of the night; / What immortal hand or eye. / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
* (figurative) fierce warrior

#### Derived terms

* 猛虎步
* 猛虎歸山，蛟龍入海／猛虎归山，蛟龙入海

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 猛(もう)虎(こ) (mōko)
* → Korean: 맹호(猛虎) (maengho)
* → Vietnamese: mãnh hổ (猛虎)

### Proper noun

猛虎
* (～嶼) Menghu Islet (an island in Lieyu, Kinmen County, Taiwan)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 猛 | 虎 |
| もう Grade: S | こ Grade: S |
| on'yomi ||

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) もーこ [móꜜòkò] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [mo̞ːko̞]

### Noun

猛(もう)虎(こ) • (mōko)
* a fierce tiger

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean

Hanja in this term :
| 猛 | 虎 |

### Noun

猛虎 • (maengho) (hangeul 맹호)
* hanja form of 맹호 (“a fierce tiger”)