胡

Hú

Meanings

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Hú

1.surname Hu

hú

1.non-Han people, esp. from central Asia
2.reckless
3.outrageous
4.what?
5.why?
6.to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hú])

hú

1.used in 胡同[hú tòng]

hú

1.beard
2.mustache
3.whiskers

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Wiktionary

1.used in 猢猻／猢狲 (húsūn)
2.used in 獑猢／𰡔猢 (chánhú)
3.congee; rice gruel; porridge
4.to eat gruel to allay one's hunger
5.paste
6.to apply a mixture
7.muddled; unclear; blurry
8.to flop
9.completed hand; victory
10.wattle; dewlap (fleshy lobe hanging from the head or neck of animals)
11.wattle-like object, such as pendent parts on implements
12.how; why; what
13.barbarian; a generic term for any non-Han peoples who lived to the north and west of China's borders
14.countries and peoples in the Western Regions, including Persia, Daqin, and in Pre-Tang texts, India
15.introduced from the northern or western non-Han peoples or from abroad; non-Chinese; foreign; imported
16.(～國) State of Hu in the Spring and Autumn Period in modern-day Anhui, conquered by the State of Chu in 496 BCE
17.long-lived (used in posthumous names)
18.black; dark-skinned
19.great; big; senior
20.outrageously; recklessly; wildly; foolishly

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡaː): phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ) + semantic ⺼. ; "dewlap" ; "steppe nomads" ; interrogative word ("what; why; how")

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Stroke order

Components

胡古月

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

這是胡說。
This is gibberish.
她討厭胡蘿蔔。
She hates carrots.
胡蘿蔔多少錢？
How much do the carrots cost?
胡蘿蔔多少錢？
How much are carrots?
這文章胡說八道。
This article is nonsense.
讓我來切胡蘿蔔。
Let me cut the carrots.

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Related words

胡子 beard 胡说 to talk nonsense 胡乱 careless 胡闹 to act willfully and make a scene 胡须 beard 胡同 lane; alley 胡同 variant of 胡同[hú tòng]羯胡 Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century 胡抡 to act rashly 五胡 Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiōng nú], Xianbei 鲜卑[Xiān bēi], Jie 羯[Jié], Di 氐[Dī], Qiang 羌[Qiāng], esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六国[Wǔ hú Shí liù guó]胡乐 Hu music 胡髭 beard and mustache