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糊

hū

HSK 5 Character

What 糊 means

1. to smear; to daub; to cover (a surface with sth sticky or paste-like)
2. Taiwan pr. hú

Other readings

糊 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• húto paste; to glue; blurry; unclear; muddled; (esp. of food) scorched; burnt
• hùpaste; cream
• húcongee; (in {糊口|hú kǒu}) to feed oneself
• húvariant of {糊|hú}

Example sentences

• 全都一塌糊涂。
  Everything was a mess.
• 你说话含糊不清。
  Nǐ shuōhuà hánhúbùqīng.
  You're babbling.
• 他把我们弄糊涂了。
  Tā bǎ wǒmen nòng hútu le.
  He confused us.
• 你肯定脑子糊掉了。
  You must be mentally exhausted.
• 这句句子意思模糊。
  The meaning of this sentence is obscure.
• 不要再含糊其辞了！
  Stop humming and hawing!

Words starting with 糊

• 糊涂hú tumuddled; silly; confused
• 糊口hú kǒuto scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
• 糊里糊涂hú li hú túconfused; vague; indistinct
• 糊弄hù nongto fool; to deceive; to go through the motions
• 糊糊hú huviscous; gooey; sticky
• 糊剂hú jìpaste; glue
• 糊名hú míng(old) to seal an examinee's name on the examination paper to prevent fraud
• 糊嘴hú zuǐto scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
• 糊墙hú qiángto paper a wall
• 糊精hú jīngdextrin
• 糊涂虫hú tu chóngblunderer; bungler
• 糊涂账hú tu zhàngmuddled accounts; a mess of bookkeeping
• 糊墙纸hú qiáng zhǐwallpaper
• 糊糊涂涂hú hu tú tuconfused; muddled; stupid

Words containing 糊

• 模糊mó huvague; indistinct; fuzzy; to blur; to obscure; to confuse; to mix up
• 含糊hán huambiguous; vague; careless
• 迷迷糊糊mí mí hū hūin a daze; bewildered
• 一塌糊涂yī tā hú tumuddled and completely collapsing (idiom); in an awful condition; complete shambles…
• 迷糊mí humuddle-headed; dazed; only half conscious
• 稀里糊涂xī li hú tumuddleheaded; careless
• 模糊不清mó hu bù qīngindistinct; fuzzy; blurred with age
• 浆糊jiàng hupaste; Taiwan pr. jiàng hú
• 血肉模糊xuè ròu mó hu(idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
• 不含糊bù hán huunambiguous; unequivocal; explicit
• 含含糊糊hán hán hú hú(of speech) obscure; unclear; (of actions) vague
• 黑糊糊hēi hū hūblack; dark; dusky
• 口糊kǒu húindistinct in one's speech; defective in one's pronunciation
• 面糊miàn hùpanada; cooked flour paste; flour paste (used in crafts); batter (used in cooking)…
• 老糊涂lǎo hú tudotard
• 闹糊糊nào hú huto cause trouble
• 含糊不清hán hú bù qīngunclear; indistinct; ambiguous
• 含糊其词hán hú qí cíto equivocate; to talk evasively (idiom)
• 模糊数学mó hu shù xuéfuzzy mathematics
• 模糊逻辑mó hu luó jifuzzy logic
• 养家糊口yǎng jiā hú kǒu(idiom) to provide for one's family
• 烂糊làn hu(of food) very soft and mushy from prolonged cooking…
• 晕糊yūn hudizzy; giddy
• 麦芽糊精mài yá hú jīngmaltodextrin

Characters built on 胡

These share the phonetic component 胡 (hú), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 湖húlake
• 瑚húused in 珊瑚
• 蝴húused in 蝴蝶
• 葫húused in 葫芦
• 鹕húused in 鹈鹕
• 醐húused in 醍醐
• 煳húburnt; to char
• 猢húused in 猢狲

Characters that look like 糊

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

• 凝níngto congeal; to concentrate attention; to stare
• 躺tǎngto recline; to lie down
• 榻tàcouch
• 槛kǎndoor sill; threshold
• 撷xiéto collect; Taiwan pr. jié
• 赭zhěocher

Sounds the same

Read hū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 乎(classical particle similar to 于; at; from
• 呼to call; to cry; to shout
• 忽to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
• 惚used in 恍惚
• 芴(old) vaguely; suddenly
• 唿to whistle (with fingers in one's mouth); (onomatopoeia) for the sound of the wind
• 幠arrogant; rude; to cover
• 昒daybreak; dawn; dusky
• 膴big piece of meat; dried meat
• 虍stripes of a tiger; "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141)
• 虖to exhale; to call; scream of tiger
• 謼to shout; to mourn; to invoke