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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

胡须

húxū

beard

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

beard

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 胡须 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 胡须 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我想拔你的胡须。wǒ xiǎng bá nǐ de hú xū。

I want to pluck your facial hair.

光有胡须不能造就一位哲学家。guāng yǒu hú xū bù néng zào jiù yī wèi zhé xué jiā。

A beard does not make a philosopher.

如果在我的胡须中有一根毫毛知道了我的想法,我就会把它连根拔掉。rú guǒ zài wǒ de hú xū zhōng yǒu yī gēn háo máo zhī dào le wǒ de xiǎng fǎ, wǒ jiù huì bǎ tā lián gēn bá diào。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 胡须.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 胡须.

Directly before

  • 的胡须2
  • 光有胡须1

Directly after

  • 胡须不能1
  • 胡须中有1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 胡须

What does 胡须 mean in Chinese?

胡须 (húxū) means beard.

How do you pronounce 胡须?

胡须 is pronounced húxū.

Is 胡须 an HSK word?

胡须 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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