胡 (鬍) hú
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hú
noun
beard / mustache
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED 4 '胡') -
hú
pronoun
what?, why?, how?
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: May be used as an interrogative pronoun in preclassical Chinese, in the sense of 何 of 何故 (GHC '胡' 7; Kroll 2015 '胡' 5; NCCED 3 '胡'; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 95). -
hú
noun
non-Han people
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Particularly from central Asia (GHC '胡' 10; Kroll 2015 '胡' 4; NCCED 1 '胡' 1; Sun 2006, loc. 1475) -
hú
adverb
recklessly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (GHC '胡' 8; NCCED 2 '胡' 1) -
hú
noun
foreign
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Describing things introduced by foreigners to China (NCCED 1 '胡' 2; Sun 2006, loc. 1475) -
hú
noun
huqin
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: The 胡琴 musical instrument (NCCED 1 '胡' 3) -
hú
adjective
big / great
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 大 (GHC '胡' 5; Kroll 2015 '胡' 3; NCCED 1 '胡' 4) -
hú
bound form
hutong
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED 5 '胡') -
hú
noun
dewlap
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: A flap of skin under the chin on some animals' necks (GHC '胡' 1; Kroll 2015 '胡' 1) -
hú
noun
smaller curved blade on underside of a glaive
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Part of an ancient weapon (GHC '胡' 3; Kroll 2015 '胡' 2) -
hú
noun
neck
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 领 (GHC '胡' 2) -
hú
noun
longevity
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 长寿 (GHC '胡' 4) -
hú
noun
Hu
Domain: History 历史 , Subdomain: China 中国 , Concept: Place Name 地名
Notes: The name of a historic state in the Spring and Autumn period (GHC '胡' 9) -
hú
proper noun
Hu
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names 名字 , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (GHC '胡' 12)
Contained in
- 胡同(衚衕) hutong / lane / alley
- 胡琴 huqin
- 胡言 raving / nonsense ; languages of minority peoples of North and Northwest China
- 胡子(鬍子) beard / moustache / facial hair ; a bandit
- 胡乱(胡亂) careless / reckless / arbitrary
- 胡涂(胡塗) muddled / silly / confused
- 胡说(胡說) to talk nonsense ; nonsense ; nonsense
- 胡来(胡來) to mess with / to mess up
- 刮胡刀(刮鬍刀) a razor
- 胡作非为(胡作非為) to run amok
- 胡椒 pepper ; pepper
- 东胡(東胡) Eastern barbarians
- 胡跪 to kneel on one knee
- 胡须(鬍鬚) a beard
- 胡髭(鬍髭) a beard / a mustache
- 胡桃 walnut
- 胡椒 pepper ; pepper
- 胡人 foreigner
- 胡马(胡馬) foreign horse
- 胡说(胡說) to talk nonsense ; nonsense ; nonsense
- 胡写(胡寫) to write recklessly
- 胡诌(胡謅) to fabricate / to tell a tale
- 胡说八道 to talk nonsense ; to talk rubbish
- 胡麻 hemp seeds / sesame / flax / linseed
- 胡为(胡為) why
- 刮胡子(刮鬍子) to shave
- 胡说八道 to talk nonsense ; to talk rubbish
- 五胡十六国(五胡十六國) Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people
- 胡马依北风(胡馬依北風) the Tartar horse prefers the North wind
- 胡萝卜(胡蘿蔔) carrot
- 胡瓜 cucumber
- 黑胡椒 black pepper
- 白胡椒 white peppercorn
- 胡越 peoples of minority groups in north, west and south of China ; large distance / disaster / calamity
- 二胡 Erhu
- 胡扯 to chatter / to talk nonsense
Also contained in
胡亥 、 五胡 、 五胡乱华 、 胡斯 、 胡朝 、 化胡经 、 碧眼胡 、 胡幽贞 、 老子化胡经 、 胡床 、 蔡仲胡 、 五胡乱华 、 羯胡 、 稽胡 、 山胡
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第十六回 Chapter 16 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 1
- 第九十四回 Chapter 94 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1
- 第十三回 Chapter 13 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1