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葫

hú
noun #95,299

Meanings

  1. 1 bottle gourd; calabash

Examples

墙上挂着一个葫芦。
Qiáng shàng guà zhe yí gè húlu.
There is a gourd hanging on the wall.
我真猜不透他葫芦里卖的什么药。
Wǒ zhēn cāibutòu tā húlu lǐ mài de shénme yào.
I really can't tell what trick he's up to.
孩子们爱吃糖葫芦。
Háizimen ài chī tánghúlu.
Children love to eat candied haws on a stick.

Tips

culture
Used only in 葫芦 ('gourd'). The idiom 葫芦里卖的什么药 literally asks 'what medicine is being sold inside the gourd', meaning 'what is he secretly up to', since old doctors carried medicine in a gourd.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical on top marks this as a plant: the gourd is a climbing vine, so it joins the family of plant words written with this radical.
phonetic
胡 hú
non-Chinese; reckless
Sits below the grass radical and supplies the sound: 胡 hú gives the reading directly with no tone change. It adds no meaning here.

Stroke Order

葫 hú