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to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic)
peppermint
to concoct a cock-and-bull story (idiom) / to make things up
gaudy / flashy (but without substance)
to talk rubbish
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  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
surname Hu
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  *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)
careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how
ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian
a bunch of nonsense
the peoples north, west and south of China
large distance / disaster / calamity
white peppercorn
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
wasp / hornet
to speak without thinking; to blurt sth out
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
to spend recklessly / to squander money
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
carrot
razor
pepper
dead end / blind alley
to shave
Hu Xijin (1960-), editor-in-chief of the "Global Times" 環球時報|环球时报 2005-2021
to stuff oneself with food
Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam
Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文
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
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
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
(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)
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
jackal
to chatter / nonsense / blather
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly
to act willfully and make a scene / to make trouble
HSK 7-9
beard stubble
Eastern barbarian / ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China
mustache shaped like character
honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica
lane; alley / CL: 條|条
to boast wildly
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
Tatar goose, wild goose found in territories northwest of China in ancient times
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly
beard stubble / Taiwan pr. [hu2 cha2]
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
Jason Hu (1948-), former Taiwan foreign minister
coriander
to talk nonsense / drivel
HSK 7-9
to disturb / to pester
(idiom) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head
carrot (Daucus carota)
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
goatee
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
(idiom) to pester endlessly
Jenny Hu (1945-), Hong Kong actress
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
erhua form of 胡同
HSK 5
indiscriminate admiration (idiom)
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
sideburns
toothbrush moustache; Hitler moustache
roast pepper sausage / pepperoni
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
Ranghulu, a district of Daqing City 大慶市|大庆市, Heilongjiang
cucumber
careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
Aarhus, city in Denmark
blunderer / bungler / also written 糊塗蟲|糊涂虫
Sibelle Hu (1958-), Taiwanese actress
to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head
to talk nonsense
carotene
Hu Quan (1102-1180), Song Dynasty official and poet
beard / CL: , 綹|绺
to make things up / to concoct (a story, an excuse etc)

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