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豁

huō

Character

What 豁 means

1. opening
2. stake all
3. sacrifice
4. crack
5. slit

Other readings

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

• huáto play Chinese finger-guessing game
• huòopen; clear; liberal-minded; generous; to exempt; to remit

Example sentences

• 大多数针对性别肯定照护的禁令都针对阴阳人婴儿明确规定了唯一豁免，允许他们接受真正的儿童生殖器切割。
  Most bans on gender-affirming care explicitly carve out exceptions for the only actual child genital mutilation going on, that against intersex babies.

Words starting with 豁

• 豁达huò dáoptimistic; sanguine; generous
• 豁然开朗huò rán kāi lǎngsuddenly opens up to a wide panorama (idiom); to come to a wide clearing…
• 豁出去huō chu quto throw caution to the wind; to press one's luck; to go for broke
• 豁然huò ránwide and open; a flash of understanding
• 豁免huò miǎnto exempt; exemption
• 豁免权huò miǎn quánimmunity from prosecution
• 豁楞huō leng(dialect) (variant of 劐弄; to stir; to make trouble
• 豁拳huá quánvariant of 划拳

Words containing 豁

• 哦豁ò huō(dialect) oops!; oh no!; oh snap!
• 醒豁xǐng huòclear; unambiguous
• 显豁xiǎn huòevident; clear and bright
• 外交豁免权wài jiāo huò miǎn quándiplomatic immunity

Characters that look like 豁

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

• 膨péngswollen
• 黏niánsticky; glutinous; (Taiwan) to adhere; to stick on; to glue
• 鞠jūto incline (one's torso); to bow; leather ball used in ancient times…
• 瓢piáodipper; ladle
• 鼬yòu(zoology) weasel
• 鹬yùcommon snipe; sandpiper

Sounds the same

Read huō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 劐(colloquial) to slit with a knife; (variant of 耠; to loosen soil with a hoe
• 耠a hoe; to hoe; to loosen the soil with a hoe
• 锪(metalwork) to ream; to countersink; to counterbore
• 攉to shovel