hú zi

Traditional: 鬍子

HSK 5

胡子 (hú zi) is a Chinese word meaning “beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair”.

Meanings

  1. 1beard
  2. 2mustache or whiskers
  3. 3facial hair
  4. 4CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]
  5. 5(coll.) bandit
Part of speech
noun

Characters in 胡子

胡hú · non-Han people, esp. from central Asia子zǐ · son

Related words

孩子child儿子son房子house妻子wife and children妻子wife案子long table; counter样子appearance小子(literary) youngster小子(coll.) boy子son子noun suffix, as in 椅子[yi3 zi5] "chair"日子day

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