虍 (hū) is Kangxi radical no. 141, “tiger”. It also appears as 虎 (hū). In this form it is written with 6 strokes.
As a radical, 虍 (hū) is the part a dictionary files these characters under. Often it hints at the meaning - “tiger” - but sometimes it is only a shape that the character happened to share.
The characters range from 8 to 11 strokes. None of them is in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 0 have a full word page of their own.
Good ones to start with: 虎 (hū) tiger, 虚 (xū) emptiness, 虏 (lǔ) prisoner of war, 虐 (nüè) cruel, harsh, oppressive.
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