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糊涂

hú tu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 糊塗

糊涂 (hú tu) means "muddled; silly; confused". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 糊涂 means

1. muddled
2. silly
3. confused

The characters in 糊涂

• 糊hūto smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like); Taiwan pr. hú
• 涂túto apply (paint etc); to smear; to daub

Example sentences

• 全都一塌糊涂。
  Everything was a mess.
• 他把我们弄糊涂了。
  Tā bǎ wǒmen nòng hútu le.
  He confused us.
• 小事聪明，大事糊涂。
  Xiǎoshì cōngming, dàshì hútu.
  Penny wise, pound foolish.

Words starting with 糊涂

• 糊涂虫hú tu chóngblunderer; bungler
• 糊涂账hú tu zhàngmuddled accounts; a mess of bookkeeping

Words containing 糊涂

• 一塌糊涂yī tā hú tumuddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles…
• 稀里糊涂xī li hú tumuddleheaded; careless
• 老糊涂lǎo hú tudotard
• 放着明白装糊涂fàng zhe míng bai zhuāng hú tuto pretend not to know (idiom)
• 揣着明白装糊涂chuāi zhe míng bai zhuāng hú tuto pretend to not know; to play dumb
• 聪明一世，糊涂一时cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí(idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment…

Sounds the same

Read hú tu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 胡涂variant of 糊涂

Where 糊涂 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Evaluation, Faults & Criticism (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read hú tu correctly.
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