| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 胡吹 | hú chuī | to boast wildly |
| 胡吹乱捧 | hú chuī luàn pěng | indiscriminate admiration (idiom) |
| 胡吣 | hú qìn | to talk provokingly or nonsensically |
| 胡图族 | Hú tú zú | Hutu, an ethnic group in Rwanda and Burundi |
| 胡涂虫 | hú tu chóng | blunderer; bungler; also written 糊涂虫 |
| 胡天 | hú tiān | Zoroastrianism |
| 胡夫 | Hú fū | Khufu (Pharoah, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC) |
| 胡姬花 | hú jī huā | Vanda miss joaquim (hybrid orchid), national flower of Singapore |
| 胡志强 | Hú Zhì qiáng | Jason Hu (Taiwan foreign minister) |
| 胡志明市 | Hú Zhì míng shì | Ho Chi Minh City a.k.a. Saigon, Vietnam |
| 胡想 | hú xiǎng | to let one's imagination run wild; fantasy |
| 胡慧中 | Hú Huì zhōng | Sibelle Hu (1958-), Taiwanese actress |
| 胡扯 | hú chě | to chatter; nonsense; blather |
| 胡扯八溜 | hú chě bā liū | to talk nonsense |
| 胡扯淡 | hú chě dàn | nonsense; irresponsible patter |
| 胡抡 | hú lūn | to act rashly |
| 胡搞 | hú gǎo | to mess around; to mess with something; to have an affair |
| 胡搅 | hú jiǎo | to disturb; to pester |
| 胡椒子 | hú jiāo zǐ | peppercorn; seeds of pepper |
| 胡椒属 | hú jiāo shǔ | pepper genus (Piper spp.) |
| 胡椒粉 | hú jiāo fěn | ground pepper (i.e. powder) |
| 胡椒粒 | hú jiāo lì | peppercorn; seeds of pepper |
| 胡椒薄荷 | hú jiāo bò he | peppermint |
| 胡乐 | hú yuè | Hu music; central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati) |
| 胡温新政 | Hú Wēn xīn zhèng | Hu JinTao and Wen JiaBao new politics |
