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胡子

hú zi

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 鬍子 Measure word 撮、根

胡子 (hú zi) means "beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 胡子 means

1. beard
2. mustache or whiskers
3. facial hair
4. colloquialbandit

The characters in 胡子

• 胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我得刮胡子。
  I need to shave.
• 请刮一下胡子。
  A shave, please.
• 他每天刮胡子。
  He shaves himself every day.
• 他天天刮胡子。
  He shaves himself every day.
• 他留有小胡子。
  He has a small beard.
• 汤姆留着小胡子。
  Tom is growing a mustache.

Words containing 胡子

• 刮胡子guā hú zito shave
• 络腮胡子luò sāi hú zifull beard
• 红胡子hóng hú ziband of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic)
• 山羊胡子shān yáng hú zigoatee
• 吹胡子瞪眼chuī hú zi dèng yǎnto get angry; to fume
• 眉毛胡子一把抓méi mao hú zi yī bǎ zhuācareless; any-old-how, regardless of the specific task
• 头发胡子一把抓tóu fa hú zi yī bǎ zhuālit. hair and beard all in one stroke; fig. to handle different things by the same…
• 落腮胡子luò sāi hú zivariant of 络腮胡子

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