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糊

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to paste; to glue; blurry; unclear; muddled; (esp. of food) scorched; burnt; paste; mush; thick gruel

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HSK 3.0
Level 5
Old HSK
Level 5
Strokes
15
Radical
米 +9
Structure
Left–right 左右
Traditional
糊
Common rank
#1,321
Unicode
U+7CCA

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Formation & memory

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How 糊 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

米 meaning “grain” + 胡 sound ( hú )

Components 米 胡

How to remember it

batter · Heisig RSH #2029

米 rice + 胡 recklessly

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 糊

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
养家糊口 yǎng jiā hú kǒu (idiom) to provide for one's family
模糊数学 mó hu shù xué fuzzy mathematics
放着明白装糊涂 fàng zhe míng bai zhuāng hú tu to pretend not to know (idiom)
模糊不清 mó hu bù qīng indistinct; fuzzy; blurred with age
聪明一世,糊涂一时 cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí (idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in hi…
血肉模糊 xuè ròu mó hu (idiom) badly mangled or mutilated; gruesome
马糊 mǎ hu variant of 馬虎|马虎[ma3 hu5]
面糊 miàn hù panada; cooked flour paste; flour paste (used in crafts); batter (used in cooking); Taiwan…
面糊 miàn hu (of food) starchy and soft
口糊 kǒu hú indistinct in one's speech; defective in one's pronunciation
糊口 hú kǒu to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
糊口 hú kǒu variant of 糊口[hu2 kou3]
含糊不清 hán hú bù qīng unclear; indistinct; ambiguous
糊名 hú míng (old) to seal an examinee's name on the examination paper to prevent fraud
烂泥糊不上墙 làn ní hú bù shàng qiáng see 爛泥扶不上牆|烂泥扶不上墙[lan4 ni2 fu2 bu4 shang4 qiang2]
糊嘴 hú zuǐ to scrape a meager living; to get by with difficulty
糊精 hú jīng dextrin
含糊其词 hán hú qí cí to equivocate; to talk evasively (idiom)
糊剂 hú jì paste; glue
不含糊 bù hán hu unambiguous; unequivocal; explicit; prudent; cautious; not negligent; unafraid; unhesitati…

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 胡 — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
胡 sound part hú recklessly, foolishly; wildly
湖 hú lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green
葫 hú bottle-gourd
蝴 hú butterfly
瑚 hú coral
鹕 hú pelican
猢 hú a kind of monkey found in western China
醐 hú the purest cream