胡 hú
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- Made of
- 古 old, classic, ancient ⺼ meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
胡乱
húluàn
randomly; carelessly; without order
Characters in this word
乱 luàn
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 乚 — secret, hidden, mysterious
Example phrases
- 面对复杂的证据，记者不能胡乱下结论，必须逐项核实。 Miànduì fùzá de zhèngjù, jìzhě bù néng húluàn xià jiélùn, bìxū zhú xiàng héshí. Faced with complex evidence, journalists must not draw conclusions carelessly, but must verify each item one by one.
- 他胡乱把衣服塞进箱子里就出门了。 Tā húluàn bǎ yīfu sāi jìn xiāngzi lǐ jiù chūmén le. He stuffed his clothes into the suitcase any old way and left the house.
- 小孩子胡乱涂了几笔，居然像一只小狗。 Xiǎoháizi húluàn tú le jǐ bǐ, jūrán xiàng yì zhī xiǎogǒu. The little child scribbled a few strokes at random, and it actually looked like a puppy.
Related words
- 胡同儿 hútòngr alley
- 胡子 húzi beard and mustache
- 胡闹 húnào to fool around; to act wilfully; to make trouble
- 胡说 húshuō to talk nonsense
- 胡思乱想 húsīluànxiǎng to indulge in wild thoughts; to let one's imagination run away
- 乱 luàn messy; chaotic
- 混乱 hùnluàn chaotic, disorderly
- 捣乱 dǎoluàn to make trouble; to disrupt
- 慌乱 huāngluàn panicked; flustered; in disorder
- 乱七八糟 luànqībāzāo in a complete mess; all in disorder
- 忙乱 mángluàn flustered; in a hurried mess
- 扰乱 rǎoluàn to disrupt; to disturb