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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
peppermint
to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild
HSK 7-9
to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages
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)
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
beard / CL: , 綹|绺
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
The Nutcracker (ballet)
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader / see also 胡志明市
wasp / hornet
to talk nonsense / drivel
HSK 7-9
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
to spend recklessly / to squander money
pepper
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
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
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
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
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
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
to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules / to mess with sth / to make a hash of things / to cause trouble
coriander
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
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
Hook or Hooke (name) / Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor
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
cucumber
carotene
to talk provokingly or nonsensically
to disturb / to pester
Sibelle Hu (1958-), Taiwanese actress
to make things up / to concoct (a story, an excuse etc)
beard / mustache or whiskers / facial hair / CL: , / (coll.) bandit
HSK 5
to talk nonsense
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), German philosopher
(idiom) to pester endlessly
Jason Hu (1948-), former Taiwan foreign minister
pipe wind instrument introduced from the non-Han peoples in the North and West
to act willfully and make a scene / to make trouble
HSK 7-9
Juan (Spanish given name)
pepper spray / OC spray
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
sesame / (botany) flax / linseed
blunderer / bungler / also written 糊塗蟲|糊涂虫
to act rashly
beard and mustache
bandit (old)
walnut
Hu Jia (1973-), PRC dissident human rights activist
erhua form of 胡同
HSK 5
nonsense / irresponsible patter
sesame seed
coriander
Hu Egong (1884-1951), Chinese revolutionary and politician
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
Zoroastrianism
Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
Hu Yaobang (1915-1989), Chinese politician
(bird species of China) bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)
beard stubble
fenugreek
beard stubble / Taiwan pr. [hu2 cha2]
Hu Quan (1102-1180), Song Dynasty official and poet

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