胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])
9 strokes
Dict coverage rank #530 U+80E1
How 胡 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “meat”) + 古 (phonetic, gǔ)
How to remember it
recklessly · Heisig RSH #17
moon + 古 ancient
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 古
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 古 (gǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound component | gǔ | old, classic, ancient |
| 苦 | kǔ | bitter; hardship, suffering |
| 居 | jū | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit |
| 故 | gù | reason, cause; happening, instance |
| 固 | gù | to solidify; strength |
| 估 | gū | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume |
| 咕 | gū | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble |
| 鸪 | gū | species of Taiwan pigeon |
| 沽 | gū | to buy and sell; of inferior quality |
| 蛄 | gū | mole cricket |
| 辜 | gū | crime, offense, sin |
| 祜 | hù | blessings, happiness, prosperity |
| 怙 | hù | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) |
| 钴 | gǔ | cobalt; clothes-iron |
| 罟 | gǔ | net, snare; to implicate |
| 诂 | gǔ | explanation; to comment, to explain |
| 骷 | kū | skeleton |
| 嘏 | gǔ | felicity, prosperity; large and strong |
| 轱 | gū | wheel; to revolve, to turn |
Words containing 胡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 红胡子 | hóng hú zi | band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic) |
| 胡同儿 | hú tòng r | erhua form of 胡同[hu2 tong4] |
| 信口胡说 | xìn kǒu hú shuō | to speak without thinking; to blurt sth out |
| 内塔尼亚胡 | Nèi tǎ ní yà hú | Netanyahu (name); Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 199… |
| 胡子 | hú zi | beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit |
| 胡人 | hú rén | ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times; foreigner; barbarian |
| 满口胡言 | mǎn kǒu hú yán | to spout nonsense; to bullshit endlessly |
| 胡说八道 | hú shuō bā dào | to talk rubbish |
| 胡天 | Hú tiān | Zoroastrianism |
| 胡花 | hú huā | to spend recklessly; to squander money |
| 死胡同 | sǐ hú tòng | dead end; blind alley |
| 胡安 | Hú ān | Juan (Spanish given name) |
| 胡克 | Hú kè | Hook or Hooke (name); Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist a… |
| 胡作非为 | hú zuò fēi wéi | to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages |
| 山羊胡子 | shān yáng hú zi | goatee |
| 圣胡安 | Shèng hú ān | San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico |
| 胡图族 | Hú tú zú | Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi |
| 八字胡 | bā zì hú | mustache shaped like character 八 |
| 一派胡言 | yī pài hú yán | a bunch of nonsense |
| 胡志明市 | Hú Zhì míng Shì | Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam |