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to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
Hu-Wen New Administration (formed in 2003), ostensibly reform-oriented leadership of Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛 and Wen Jiabao 溫家寶|温家宝
mustache shaped like character
beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
peppermint
erhua form of 胡同
HSK 5
to talk nonsense / drivel
HSK 7-9
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
Eastern barbarian / ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China
to shave
to talk rubbish
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
surname Hu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written )
ground pepper (i.e. powder)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
beard / mustache / whiskers
ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian
indiscriminate admiration (idiom)
razor
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
beard / CL: , 綹|绺
gaudy / flashy (but without substance)
a bunch of nonsense
the peoples north, west and south of China
large distance / disaster / calamity
Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
to speak without thinking; to blurt sth out
white peppercorn
The Nutcracker (ballet)
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
wasp / hornet
goatee
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
to spend recklessly / to squander money
pepper
dead end / blind alley
mustache shaped like character
toothbrush moustache; Hitler moustache
to stuff oneself with food
Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam
to concoct a cock-and-bull story (idiom) / to make things up
to act willfully and make a scene / to make trouble
HSK 7-9
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636)
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
to eat and drink gluttonously / to pig out
with all the majesty of an emperor (idiom) / reckless / intemperate
Vanda miss joaquim (hybrid orchid), national flower of Singapore
to mess around / to mess with something / to have an affair
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
(idiom, from Book of Songs) unable to advance or retreat
Hu Ziwei (1970-), PRC lady TV presenter
Hoover (name) / Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)
jackal
to chatter / nonsense / blather
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly
careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
Hu Xijin (1960-), editor-in-chief of the "Global Times" 環球時報|环球时报 2005-2021
to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head
San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico
honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica
lane; alley / CL: 條|条
to boast wildly
pepper genus (Piper spp.)
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
Tatar goose, wild goose found in territories northwest of China in ancient times
careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
coriander
to get angry; to fume
Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑, Jie , Di , Qiang , esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
where will it stop?
derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进 for doing the CCP's bidding as editor of the "Global Times"
Jenny Hu (1945-), Hong Kong actress
smelt (family Osmeridae)
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
carrot (Daucus carota)
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
roast pepper sausage / pepperoni
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
(idiom) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head
carrot
lit. hair and beard all in one stroke / fig. to handle different things by the same method / one method to solve all problems / one size fits all
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
cucumber
carotene
two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly

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