The Chinese Radical: 胡




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Meaning
beard, non-Han people    胡

Explanation

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

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

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

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

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

Top: plant 艹, below: beard, non-Han-person 胡 (Like old 古 flesh 月/肉 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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