HSK 6 · Body

胡须 húxū “beard” in Chinese

Traditional 鬍鬚

What 胡须 means

  1. beard
  2. moustache

Measure word 根 gēn or 绺 liǔ · 一根胡须 yì gēn húxū

How to say 胡须

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale胡hú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale须xū1st tone, high and level

胡须 in a sentence

  1. 光有胡须不能造就一位哲学家。

    Guāng yǒu húxū bù néng zàojiù yí wèi zhéxuéjiā.

    A beard alone doesn’t make a philosopher.

    Sentence #828676 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 胡须 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 胡 (hú) with each of its parts in a different colour
胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia
  • 古old · gǔSound part
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with hú.

The character 须 (xū) with each of its parts in a different colour
须xūmust
  • 彡bristle · shān
  • 页page · xié

How to write 胡须

胡 9 strokes · 须 9 strokes

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胡须 (húxū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 胡须 (húxū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 胡须

Words with 胡

胡同hútòng · lane胡说húshuō · to talk nonsense胡乱húluàn · carelessly

Words with 须

必须bìxū · must须知xūzhī · notice

More words: People, Body & Health

患者huànzhě · patient化验huàyàn · laboratory test昏迷hūnmí · to fall unconscious浑身húnshēn · all over (the body)饥饿jī'è · hunger疾病jíbìng · disease解剖jiěpōu · to dissect颈椎jǐngzhuī · cervical vertebra

FAQs

胡须 (húxū) means “beard” or “moustache”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it húxū: hú with a 2nd tone, then xū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 胡须 is written 鬍鬚. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 根 (gēn) or 绺 (liǔ). For example, one beard is 一根胡须 (yì gēn húxū).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huxu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胡须 from the suggestions. Typing huxu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胡须 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.