胡
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])
胡 character breakdown
ancient / old / paleo-
古
=
十
+
口
:
Mnemonic symbol: at least on German maps, this character actually resembles a cloister.
Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
Oh no! Gitta Giraffe (gu) found that the golden cross (十) broke off of the cloister (古) in the space station's living room (Ø3)! She skewers a mandarin (口) on top of the cloister so that she can skewer the broken off cross back on to fix it.
Characters with 胡 as component
variant of 糊[hu2]
糊
=
米
+
胡
:
In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.
muddled / paste / scorched
糊
=
米
+
胡
:
In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.
congee / making a living
糊
=
米
+
胡
:
In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Helga Horse (hu) is cooking a paste (糊) made of a whole sack of rice (米). She made a big mess, partly because the instructions were so unclear (糊) and therefore she was so muddled up (糊). She even had her Confucius moustache (胡) catch the oven's fire, so her moustache got scorched (糊), just as the rice paste.
lake / CL:個|个[ge4],片[pian4]
湖
=
氵
+
胡
:
Helga Horse (hu) is doing an experiment just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2). She lets the water out of a water bottle (氵) and it forms something like a ball very soon. Helga Horse then uses her Confucius beard (胡) to create a loop and let the water, through the surface tension, expand by stretching the loop. She wants to find out how far she can stretch to get a little lake (湖).
used in 蝴蝶[hu2 die2]
蝴
=
虫
+
胡
:
Helga Horse (hu) got such a long Confucius style beard (胡), without any help she'd be lost. Just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) for example: without help her beard would be entangled in all the instruments in seconds. Luckily she gets help from a mosquito (虫) and a butterfly (蝴) who each take care of one end of her beard.
Words with 胡
to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head
lit. hair and beard all in one stroke / fig. to handle different things by the same method / one method to solve all problems / one size fits all
Sentences with 胡
胡 currently does not appear in any sentence.