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厚

hòu

HSK 4 Character

What 厚 means

1. thick
2. deep or profound
3. kind
4. generous
5. rich or strong in flavor
6. to favor
7. to stress

Example sentences

• 这本书好厚。
  This book is too thick.
• 这本书非常厚。
  This book is very thick.
• 我对她寄予厚望。
  Wǒ duì tā jìyǔhòuwàng.
  I have high hopes for her.
• 今天早上下厚霜了。
  Jīntiān zǎoshang xià hòu shuāng le.
  We had a heavy frost this morning.
• 他看起来忠厚老实。
  He looks like an honest man.
• 我受够了他的厚颜无耻。
  Wǒ shòugòu le tā de hòuyánwúchǐ.
  I've had quite enough of his impudence.

Words starting with 厚

• 厚道hòu daokind and honest; generous; sincere
• 厚重hòu zhòngthick; heavy; thickset (body)
• 厚实hòu shithick; substantial; sturdy
• 厚度hòu dùthickness
• 厚爱hòu àito show great affection and care
• 厚望hòu wànggreat hopes; great expectations
• 厚颜无耻hòu yán wú chǐshameless
• 厚薄hòu báothickness; also pr. hòu bó
• 厚礼hòu lǐgenerous gifts
• 厚报hòu bàogenerous reward
• 厚待hòu dàigenerous treatment
• 厚颜hòu yánshameless
• 厚底鞋hòu dǐ xiéplatform shoes
• 厚生相hòu shēng xiàngminister of health (of Japan, UK etc)
• 厚生省Hòu shēng shěngMinistry of Health and Welfare (Japan) (replaced in 2001 by 厚生劳动省
• 厚脸皮hòu liǎn píbrazen; shameless; impudent
• 厚德载物hòu dé zài wùwith great virtue one can take charge of the world (idiom)
• 厚生劳动省Hòu shēng Láo dòng shěngMinistry of Health, Labor and Welfare (Japan)
• 厚薄规hòu bó guīfeeler gauge
• 厚古薄今hòu gǔ bó jīnto revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
• 厚此薄彼hòu cǐ bó bǐto favour one and discriminate against the other
• 厚死薄生hòu sǐ bó shēnglit. to praise the dead and revile the living; fig. to live in the past (idiom)
• 厚积薄发hòu jī bó fālit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom)…
• 厚赐hòu cìto reward generously; generous gift

Words containing 厚

• 浓厚nóng hòudense; thick (fog, clouds etc); to have a strong interest in
• 雄厚xióng hòusubstantial; robust; ample; abundant
• 得天独厚dé tiān dú hòublessed by heaven (idiom); enjoying exceptional advantages; favored by nature
• 深情厚谊shēn qíng hòu yìdeep friendship
• 深厚shēn hòudeep; profound
• 丰厚fēng hòugenerous; ample
• 憨厚hān housimple and honest; straightforward
• 宽厚kuān hòutolerant; generous; magnanimous
• 忠厚zhōng hòuhonest and considerate
• 浑厚hún hòusimple and honest; unsophisticated; (music etc) deep and resounding
• 优厚yōu hòugenerous, liberal (pay, compensation)
• 醇厚chún hòumellow and rich; simple and kind
• 敦厚dūn hòugenuine; honest and sincere
• 肥厚féi hòuplump; fleshy; fertile
• 增厚zēng hòuto thicken
• 温厚wēn hòugood-natured; warm and generous; gentle
• 稳厚wěn hòusteady and honest
• 脸厚liǎn hòuthick-skinned; brazen
• 变厚biàn hòuto thicken
• 颜厚yán hòubrazen
• 脸皮厚liǎn pí hòubrazen
• 寄予厚望jì yǔ hòu wàngto place high hopes
• 有失厚道yǒu shī hòu daoto be ungenerous
• 未可厚非wèi kě hòu fēinot to be censured too strictly (idiom); not altogether inexcusable; understandable

Characters that look like 厚

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 席xíwoven mat; seat; banquet
• 荐jiànto recommend; to offer sacrifice (arch.); grass
• 辱rǔdisgrace; dishonor; to insult
• 浑húnmuddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 屌diǎopenis; (slang) cool or extraordinary; (Cantonese) to fuck

Sounds the same

Read hòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 后empress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 候to wait; to inquire after; to watch
• 侯used in 闽侯
• 逅used in 邂逅
• 鲎horseshoe crab
• 堠mounds for beacons
• 垕thick
• 豞grunting of pigs
• 鄇place name
• 郈surname Hou; place name
• 鲘see 鳠