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Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) Hu, an old county name in Shaanxi

Examples

Zhège cūnzi yǒu sānbǎi duō hù rénjiā.
There are over three hundred households in this village.

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history
Not used independently in modern Chinese; it named a Han-dynasty county west of Xi'an, later respelled with the simpler . It is phonetic plus the city radical .
register
Classical and historical only; encountered when reading old geography, not in modern use.

Components

radical
city; settlement
The right-side city radical, a compressed . On the right it always marks a town or county, the same family as and .
phonetic
rain sacrifice; phonetic
Fills the left and supplies the sound, drifted to hù. It is itself a rare graph (a rain-prayer rite); here it contributes only the historical pronunciation of the place name.

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In Pop Culture

鄠邑区 Hùyì Qū
The modern district of Xi'an, Shaanxi, that revived this rare character in its name after long being written 户县.

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