The Chinese Radical: 胡


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beard, non-Han people    胡

Explanation

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JLPT HSK 5
paste, cream, glue, muddled, scorched
hú, hù, hū
Left: rice , right: beard, non-Han-person (Like old flesh / are the beards of the non-Han people.)
You use rice and old bodies (= bone glue) for the paste that is a glue.
JLPT HSK 5
beard, mustache, non-Han people, reckless

Left: old (image of a tomb stone), right: flesh, body part /
Like old flesh are the beards of the non-Han people.
JLPT HSK 5
butterfly

Left: insect , right: beard, non-Han people (Like old flesh are the beards of the non-Han people.)
The insect that develops from an old body (=caterpillar & cocoon), is the butterfly.
JLPT HSK 6
lake

Left: Water , right: beard, non-Han-person (Like old flesh are the beards of the non-Han people)
Water and the old moon can be seen in the lake.
JLPT no HSK
coral

Left: king, jade , right: beard, non-Han-person (Like old flesh are the beards of the non-Han people.)
The 'jade' that is on old bodies (= coral reef), is the coral. (Or: The king in the water-less lake 湖 is the coral.)
JLPT no HSK
bottle-gourd, calabash, allium scorodoprasum

Top: plant , below: beard, non-Han-person (Like old flesh / are the beards of the non-Han people.)
(The skin can be used as a drinking-vessel.) The plant where the 'old body' is used: The bottle-gourd.

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