Chinese words starting with “hu”

37 words in our HSK vocabulary start with the syllable hu. They are sorted by how common they are, so the ones you are most likely to meet come first. The 4 most useful of them have their own page — they are listed first below.

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1st tone 12
2nd tone 14
3rd tone 1
4th tone 10

Word counts by tone are counted on the first syllable of each word.

Common words with this syllable

互相hù xiāngHSK 3
each other; mutually; mutual
忽然hū ránHSK 2
suddenly; all of a sudden
互联网hù lián wǎngHSK 3
Internet
护照hù zhàoHSK 2
passport

All 37 words

#	Word	Pinyin	POS	Meaning
1	呼吸	hū xī	v,vn	to breathe
2	户	hù	g,q	a household; door; family
3	湖	hú	n,b	lake
4	护	hù	v	to protect
5	虎	hǔ	n	tiger
6	护士	hù shi	n	nurse
7	忽略	hū lüè	v	to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
8	护理	hù lǐ	vn,v	to nurse; to tend and protect
9	忽视	hū shì	v,vn	to neglect; to overlook; to disregard; to ignore
10	糊涂	hú tu	a	muddled; silly; confused
11	胡子	hú zi	n	beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; (coll.) bandit
12	蝴蝶	hú dié	n	butterfly
13	互动	hù dòng	vn,v	to interact; interactive
14	户外	hù wài	s	outdoor
15	壶	hú	g,q	pot; classifier for bottled liquid
16	呼吁	hū yù	v,vn	to call on (sb to do sth); to appeal (to); an appeal
17	呼唤	hū huàn	v,vn	to call out (a name etc); to shout
18	糊	hú	v	muddled; paste; scorched
19	胡说	hú shuō	v,vn	to talk nonsense; drivel
20	忽悠	hū you	z	to rock; to sway; to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water); to flutter (e.g. of a flag); to trick sb into doing sth; to dupe; to con
21	互助	hù zhù	vn,v	to help each other
22	胡乱	hú luàn	d	careless; reckless; casually; absent-mindedly; at will; at random; any old how
23	呼声	hū shēng	n	a shout; fig. opinion or demand, esp. expressed by a group
24	胡闹	hú nào	v	to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble
25	胡思乱想	hú sī luàn xiǎng		to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild
26	互补	hù bǔ	v,vn	complementary; to complement each other
27	呼救	hū jiù	v	to call for help
28	胡须	hú xū	n	beard
29	湖泊	hú pō	n	lake
30	呼啸	hū xiào	v	to whistle; to scream; to whiz
31	胡同	hú tòng	n	lane; alley
32	呼应	hū yìng	v	to conform (with); to echo; to correlate well; (linguistics) agreement
33	呼风唤雨	hū fēng huàn yǔ	l	to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers; fig. to stir up troubles
34	互信	hù xìn	v,vn	mutual trust
35	互访	hù fǎng	v	exchange visits
36	胡同儿	hútòngr5		Alley
37	忽高忽低	hū gāo hū dī		alternately soaring and plunging

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