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含糊

hán hu

HSK 6 2-character word

What 含糊 means

1. ambiguous
2. vague
3. careless
4. perfunctory

The characters in 含糊

• 含hánto keep in the mouth; to contain
• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú

Example sentences

• 你说话含糊不清。
  Nǐ shuōhuà hánhúbùqīng.
  You're babbling.
• 不要再含糊其辞了！
  Stop humming and hawing!
• 汤姆的回答很含糊不清。
  Tāngmǔ de huídá hěn hánhúbùqīng.
  Tom's answer was very evasive.
• 你为什幺这幺含糊其辞？
  Why are you being so evasive?
• 两位学者为一句意思含糊的藏文句子争论了一番。
  Liǎng wèi xuézhě wèi yījù yìsi hánhu de Zàngwén jùzi zhēnglùn le yī fān.
  The two scholars wrangled over the meaning of an obscure Tibetan phrase.

Words starting with 含糊

• 含糊不清hán hú bù qīngunclear; indistinct; ambiguous
• 含糊其词hán hú qí cíto equivocate; to talk evasively (idiom)

Words containing 含糊

• 不含糊bù hán huunambiguous; unequivocal; explicit

Sounds the same

Read hán hu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 含胡variant of 含糊