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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
walnut
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
surname Hu
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written )
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *胡* | 胡* | *胡
beard / mustache / whiskers
erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle) / alto fiddle / CL:
lane / alley / CL: 條|条
pepper
careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
gaudy / flashy (but without substance)
cucumber
Ranghulu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
to make things up / to concoct (a story, an excuse etc)
sesame / (botany) flax / linseed
to chatter / nonsense / blather
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
wasp / hornet
Netanyahu (name) / Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009
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
San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico
(idiom) to pester endlessly
Aarhus, city in Denmark
to invent crazy nonsense / to cook up (excuses) / to talk at random / wild babble
jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京二胡
a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard
mustache shaped like character
Eastern barbarian / ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China
to disturb / to pester
sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture
to boast wildly
where will it stop?
to mess around / to mess with something / to have an affair
to pester / to involve sb unreasonably
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
ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times / foreigner / barbarian
variant of 蝴蝶
sideburns
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
to shave
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
black pepper
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CCP 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013
two-stringed bowed instrument / also called 墜琴|坠琴
coriander
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
Hu Quan (1102-1180), Song Dynasty official and poet
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
careless / any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
to stuff oneself with food
jackal
band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic)
Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)
variant of 和牌
to spend recklessly / to squander money
Sixteen Kingdoms of Five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439)
Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi
Hu music / central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)
jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera / also called 京胡
Juan (Spanish given name)
to get angry; to fume
Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam
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]
razor
Ranghulu district of Daqing city 大慶|大庆, Heilongjiang
goatee
Vanda miss joaquim (hybrid orchid), national flower of Singapore
pepper genus (Piper spp.)
ground pepper (i.e. powder)
peppercorn / seeds of pepper
carrot (Daucus carota)

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