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The 胡 family

胡 · hú · ㄏㄨˊ — non-Han people, esp. from central Asia

Know 胡 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 蝴、糊、湖、鬍、瑚. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.

胡 hú · sound from 古 · 68%胡蝴 hú · sound from 胡 · 95%蝴糊 hú · sound from 胡 · 95%糊湖 hú · sound from 胡 · 95%湖鬍 hú · sound from 胡 · 95%鬍瑚 hú · sound from 胡 · 95%瑚胡說 húshuō · to talk nonsense胡說胡扯 húchě · to chatter胡扯胡鬧 húnào · to act willfully and make a scene胡鬧一派胡言 yīpàihúyán · a bunch of nonsense一派胡言胡話 húhuà · nonsense胡話胡來 húlái · to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules胡來胡椒 hújiāo · pepper胡椒死胡同 sǐhútòng · dead end死胡同胡亂 húluàn · careless胡亂胡桃 hútáo · walnut胡桃胡搞 húgǎo · to mess around胡搞胡克 húkè · Hook or Hooke (name)胡克

The characters

One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.

The percentage is our computed confidence that 胡 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 胡 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 95%.

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