Word Meaning 虎榜

こぼう kobou

虎榜 is read as こぼう (kobou) and means card indicating a pass in the higher Chinese civil service examinations.

Meaning

English

card indicating a pass in the higher Chinese civil service examinations

Reading

Kana

こぼう

Romaji

kobou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 22 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

虎

とら

tiger (Panthera tigris)

虎の門事件

とらのもんじけん

Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)

虎は死して皮を留め人は死して名を残す

とらはししてかわをとどめひとはししてなをのこす

he has not lived that lives not after death

虎穴に入らずんば虎子を得ず

こけつにいらずんばこじをえず

nothing ventured, nothing gained

虎を野に放つ

とらをのにはなつ

to let loose something dangerous

虎子

こし

baby tiger

虎口を逃れて竜穴に入る

ここうをのがれてりゅうけつにいる

out of the frying pan into the fire

虎口

ここう

tiger's den

標榜

ひょうぼう

standing for

市に虎を放つ

いちにとらをはなつ

to let a fox into the henhouse

張子の虎

はりこのとら

papier-mâché tiger (toy with a loose, wobbly head)

人虎

じんこ

werecat