胡 (hú)
reckless; foolish; surname Hu
How 胡 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 十 — ten
- Traditional
- 胡
- Simplified
- 胡 (unchanged)
Common words using 胡
- 二胡 èrhú
- erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle); alto fiddle; CL:把[ba3]
- 胡思亂想 húsīluànxiǎng
- to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild; to have a bee in one's bonnet; unrealistic utopian fantasy
- 胡蘿蔔 húluóbo
- carrot
- 鬍子 húzi
- beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair
- 死胡同 sǐhútòng
- dead end; blind alley
- 胡亂 húluàn
- careless; reckless; casually
- 胡同 hútòng
- lane; alley; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 胡扯 húchě
- to chatter; nonsense; blather
- 胡攪 hújiǎo
- to disturb; to pester
- 胡桃 hútáo
- walnut
- 胡椒 hújiāo
- pepper
- 胡椒粉 hújiāofěn
- ground pepper (i.e. powder)
胡 in a sentence
別聽他胡說，那不是真的。
Bié tīng tā húshuō, nà búshì zhēn de.
“Don't listen to his nonsense; that's not true.”
How common is 胡?
胡 is the 804th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.4% of all running text.
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