| 胡 | hú | beard; mustache; whiskers; non-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和); surname Hu |
| 胡子 | hú zi | beard; moustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮,根 |
| 胡说 | hú shuō | to talk nonsense; drivel |
| 京胡 | jīng hú | Jinghu, a smaller higher pitched Erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera; also called 京二胡 |
| 二胡 | èr hú | Erhu; Chinese 2-string fiddle; alto fiddle; CL:把 |
| 胡同 | hú tòng | lane; alley; CL:条 |
| 胡椒 | hú jiāo | pepper |
| 胡萝卜 | hú luó bo | carrot |
| 胡志明 | Hú Zhì míng | Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969), former Vietnamese leader. See also 胡志明市 |
| 胡琴 | hú qin | huqin; family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring |
| 胡萝卜素 | hú luó bo sù | carotene |
| 胡乱 | hú luàn | careless; reckless; casually; absent-mindedly; at will; at random; any old how |
| 胡须 | hú xū | beard; CL:根,绺 |
| 胡闹 | hú nào | to act willfully and make a scene; to fool around; to make trouble |
| 胡说八道 | hú shuō bā dào | to talk rubbish |
| 板胡 | bǎn hú | a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard |
| 胡思乱想 | hú sī luàn xiǎng | to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom); to let one's imagination run wild; to have a bee in one's bonnet; unrealistic utopian fantasy |
| 胡作非为 | hú zuò fēi wéi | to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages |
| 胡涂 | hú tu | muddled; silly; confused; also written 糊涂 |
| 胡桃 | hú táo | walnut |
| 胡话 | hú huà | nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash |
| 死胡同 | sǐ hú tòng | blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end; impasse |
| 胡诌 | hú zhōu | to invent crazy nonsense; to cook up (excuses); to talk at random; wild babble |
| 胡来 | hú lái | to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble |
| 五胡 | Wǔ Hú | five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴, Xianbei 鲜卑, Jie 羯, Di 氐, Qiang 羌, esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六国 |
| 五胡十六国 | wǔ hú shí liù guó | Sixteen Kingdoms of five non-Han people (ruling most of China 304-439) |
| 京二胡 | jīng èr hú | Jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the Jinghu 京胡 and Erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera; also called 京胡 |
| 伊于胡底 | yī yú hú dǐ | where will it stop? |
| 内塔尼亚胡 | Nèi tǎ ní yà hú | Netanyahu (name); Benjamin Netanyahu (1949-), Israeli Likud politician, prime minister 1996-1999 and from 2009 |
| 八字胡 | bā zì hú | mustache shaped like character 八 |
| 八字胡须 | bā zì hú xū | mustache shaped like character 八 |
| 刮胡刀 | guā hú dāo | razor |
| 刮胡子 | guā hú zi | to shave |
| 北柴胡 | běi chái hú | honewort; Cryptotaenia japonica |
| 山胡桃木 | shān hú táo mù | hickory |
| 东胡 | Dōng hú | Eastern barbarian; ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China |
| 模胡 | mó hu | variant of 模糊 |
| 满口胡柴 | mǎn kǒu hú chái | to spout nonsense; to bullshit endlessly |
| 满口胡言 | mǎn kǒu hú yán | to spout nonsense; to bullshit endlessly |
| 烤胡椒香肠 | kǎo hú jiāo xiāng cháng | roast pepper sausage; pepperoni |
| 牙买加胡椒 | Yá mǎi jiā hú jiāo | Jamaican pepper; all-spice (Pimenta dioica) |
| 白胡椒 | bái hú jiāo | white peppercorn |
| 眉毛胡子一把抓 | méi mao hú zi yī bǎ zhuā | careless; any-old-how, regardless of the specific task |
| 红胡子 | hóng hú zi | band of mounted bandits in Manchuria (archaic) |
| 羯胡 | Jié hú | Jie people, originally a branch of the Tokhara 月支 |
| 胡佛 | Hú fó | Hoover (name); Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933) |
| 胡佳 | Hú Jiā | Hu Jia (1973-), PRC dissident human rights activist |
| 胡克 | Hú kè | Hook or Hooke (name); Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor |
| 胡克定律 | Hú kè dìng lǜ | Hooke's law |
| 胡吃海喝 | hú chī hǎi hē | to eat and drink gluttonously; to pig out |
