虎父无犬子 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 虎父無犬子 hǔfùwúquǎnzǐ ㄏㄨˇ ㄈㄨˋ ㄨˊ ㄑㄩㄢˇ ㄗˇ lit. father a lion, son cannot be a dog (honorific) With a distinguished father such as you, the son is sure to do well. like father, like son Character by character 虎(hǔ)tiger 父(fù)father 无(wú)not to have 犬(quǎn)dog 子(zǐ)son A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0