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beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
erhua variant of 胡同
HSK 5
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
to talk nonsense / drivel
HSK 7-9
to act willfully and make a scene / to make trouble
HSK 7-9
to chatter / nonsense / blather
walnut
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 )
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
beard / mustache / whiskers
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
variant of 和牌
lane; alley / CL: 條|条
pepper
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), German philosopher
peppermint
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
cucumber
sesame / (botany) flax / linseed
huqin / family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring
beard / CL: , 綹|绺
nonsense / ridiculous talk / hogwash
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
variant of 胡同
to eat and drink gluttonously / to pig out
to talk rubbish
broad bean (Vicia faba); fava bean
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
indiscriminate admiration (idiom)
to disturb / to pester
to boast wildly
to mess around / to mess with something / to have an affair
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
sesame seed
Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), Chinese politician
ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian
variant of 蝴蝶
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
carrot
Zoroastrianism
Hu Xijin (1960-), editor-in-chief of the "Global Times" 環球時報|环球时报 2005-2021
Jenny Hu (1945-), Hong Kong actress
Hu Shi (1891-1962), original proponent of writing in colloquial Chinese 白話文|白话文
carotene
Hoover (name) / Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
Sibelle Hu (1958-), Taiwanese actress
Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam
coriander
Hu Quan (1102-1180), Song Dynasty official and poet
wasp / hornet
Jason Hu (1948-), former Taiwan foreign minister
to concoct a cock-and-bull story (idiom) / to make things up
Hu Jia (1973-), PRC dissident human rights activist
fenugreek
to stuff oneself with food
jackal
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
to spend recklessly / to squander money
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)
Juan (Spanish given name)
beard stubble
(bird species of China) bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)
with all the majesty of an emperor (idiom) / reckless / intemperate
smelt (family Osmeridae)
beard stubble / Taiwan pr. [hu2 cha2]
Vanda miss joaquim (hybrid orchid), national flower of Singapore
pepper genus (Piper spp.)
ground pepper (i.e. powder)
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
beard and mustache
variant of 糊塗|糊涂
The Nutcracker (ballet)
pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West
variant of 狐臭
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
Hu Egong (1884-1951), Chinese revolutionary and politician
careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how
derogatory nickname given to Hu Xijin 胡錫進|胡锡进 for doing the CCP's bidding as editor of the "Global Times"
to talk provokingly or nonsensically
blunderer / bungler / also written 糊塗蟲|糊涂虫
to fool / to deceive / to go through the motions
to talk nonsense
nonsense / irresponsible patter
to act rashly
(idiom) to pester endlessly
pepper spray / OC spray
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
erhua variant of 胡琴
Hu Ziwei (1970-), PRC lady TV presenter
to make things up / to concoct (a story, an excuse etc)
coriander
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head

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