虎|とらtora[0]heiban (flat)
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- nountiger (Panthera tigris)
- noundrunkard; drunk; sot
- SynonymタイガーNeutralKatakana loanword from English; neutral in register. Like 虎, it denotes the animal, but it is not used figuratively for a drunkard.
Use 虎 for the animal and for its figurative sense 'drunkard'; タイガー, the neutral katakana loanword from English, is a synonym for the animal only.
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- とら。
- 酔っ払い。


