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吼

hǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

吼 (hǒu) means "to roar; to howl; to shriek". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 吼 means

1. to roar
2. to howl
3. to shriek
4. roar or howl of an animal
5. bellow of rage

Example sentences

• 别对着我吼。
  Bié duì zhe wǒ hǒu.
  Don't shout at me.
• 我没有在吼。
  Wǒ méiyǒu zài hǒu.
  I wasn't yelling.
• 别对我大吼大叫。
  Don't shout at me.
• 我们听到远处老虎的怒吼。
  Wǒmen tīngdào yuǎnchù lǎohǔ de nùhǒu.
  We heard tigers roaring in the distance.
• 对你的电脑吼一点帮助也没有。
  Duì nǐ de diànnǎo hǒu yīdiǎn bāngzhù yě méiyǒu.
  Shouting at your computer will not help.

Words starting with 吼

• 吼叫hǒu jiàoto howl; to bellow; to yell
• 吼声hǒu shēngroar

Words containing 吼

• 怒吼nù hǒuto bellow; to rave; to snarl
• 急吼吼jí hǒu hǒuimpatient
• 河东狮吼Hé dōng shī hǒulit. the lioness from Hedong roars (idiom); fig. refers to a shrewish wife or a henpecked…
• 嘶吼sī hǒuto yell; to shout

Characters that look like 吼

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

• 规guīcompass; a rule; regulation
• 吨dūnton (loanword); Taiwan pr. dùn
• 帆fānsail; Taiwan pr. fán, except 帆布
• 咀jǔto chew; to masticate
• 吭kēngto utter
• 岷mínname of a river in Sichuan

Sounds the same

Read hǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 犼mythical man-eating creature resembling a dog
• 吽roar or howl of an animal; bellow of rage

Where 吼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · hóng–hū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.