狐 — Chinese character
狐
hú
fox
- Pinyin
- hú
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 犭 瓜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — dog; meaning component 犭; sound component 瓜
- Japanese
- 狐 as a kanji
Common words with 狐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 狐狸 | hú li | fox; (fig.) sly or crafty person |
| 狐狸精 | hú li jīng | fox-spirit; vixen |
| 火狐 | huǒ hú | red panda (Ailurus fulgens); red fox (Vulpes vulpes) |
| 九尾狐 | jiǔ wěi hú | nine-tailed fox (mythological creature) |
| 狐猴 | hú hóu | lemur |
| 狐臭 | hú chòu | body odor; bromhidrosis |
| 老狐狸 | lǎo hú li | (fig.) old fox; a wily, shrewd person |
| 银狐 (銀狐) | yín hú | silver or black fox (Vulpes alopex argentatus); also written 玄狐 |
| 狐狸尾巴 | hú li wěi ba | lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature |
| 狐疑 | hú yí | to doubt; to suspect |
| 白狐 | bái hú | arctic fox |
| 北极狐 (北極狐) | běi jí hú | arctic fox |
English words written with 狐
狐 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 2 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 4
- Analects 10.6
- Hexagram 40
- Hexagram 64
- Mencius 3A.5
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Knowledge travels North
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.