Where does “虎鮫” come from?

虎鮫 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 虎 — a tiger.

虎鮫 (Japanese): a cloudy catshark

Definitions

  1. a cloudy catshark

Ancestry of “虎鮫”, step by step

虎鮫 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea tiger

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesea shark
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