hú
beard
Original meaning:
flesh under the chin of a cow
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 古 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "flesh under the chin of a cow", which later shifted to "beard" (now written as 鬍 in traditional characters). Also used pejoratively to refer to foreigners from central Asia, who tended to have more beards than Han Chinese people. This meaning also shifted to "reckless" and "outrageous".
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernFreq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
reckless | ||
Hu Jintao (1942-), General Secretary of the CPC 2002-2012, president of the PRC 2003-2013 | ||
beard | ||
drivel | ||
carrot |
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ˤa | hu | hú | foreigners in the north |
HSK level 5
Appears in 42.4155% of movies
909th most common character in movies
806th most common character in books
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+80E1 |
Shuowen | “胡，牛垂也。从肉，古聲。” |
