Allium scorodoprasum / bottle gourd

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is growing bottle gourd (葫) on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹) just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). For Halloween she decorates the plants with Confucius-style beards (胡).

葫 character breakdown

surname Hu
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.
see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
beard / mustache / whiskers

= + : Helga Horse (hu) visits the old and wise moon (月) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). She wants to join his cloister (古), but the moon rejects and says that first she has to get a very long Confucius style mustache (胡) such as his own.

Characters with 葫 as component

葫 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 葫

sugar-coated Chinese hawthorn or other fruit on a bamboo skewer / tanghulu
lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom) / fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification
magic gourd, granting your every wish
Secret of the Magic Gourd (1958), prize-winning children's fairy tale by Zhang Tianyi 張天翼|张天翼[Zhang1 Tian1 yi4]
lit. closed gourd / fig. enigma / complete mystery / taciturn person
solve one problem only to find another cropping up
lit. to draw a gourd from the model (idiom) / fig. to copy sth mechanically without attempt at originality

Sentences with 葫

葫 currently does not appear in any sentence.