户 (hù): a household, door, family
户 (hù) is a Chinese character meaning “a household.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 丶 (structural) and 尸 (structural). It ranks #801 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically pictographic, 户 simplified form of 戶; a door swinging on its hinge. Its radical form 户 (door) appears in many related characters such as 房 (fáng, house), 所 (suǒ, actually), 扇 (shān, to fan).
Definitions
- a household
- door
- family
Etymology & Origin
pictographicSimplified form of 戶; a door swinging on its hinge
Decomposition: ⿱丶尸 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 户
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 客户noun | kè hù | client | 5 |
| 窗户noun | chuāng hu | window | 4 |
| 账户noun | zhàng hù | (bank, computer etc) account | 5 |
| 用户noun | yòng hù | user | 5 |
| 户外noun | hù wài | outdoor | 5 |
| 家家户户noun | jiā jiā hù hù | each and every family (idiom) | 6 |
| 千家万户phrase | qiān jiā wàn hù | every family (idiom) | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 猎户座proper-noun | liè hù zuò | Orion (constellation) |
| 户头noun | hù tóu | bank account |
| 江户proper-noun | jiāng hù | Edo (old name of Tokyo) |
| 住户noun | zhù hù | household |
| 门户noun | mén hù | door |
| 挨家挨户phrase | āi jiā āi hù | to go from house to house |
| 家喻户晓phrase | jiā yù hù xiǎo | understood by everyone (idiom) |
| 户口noun | hù kǒu | population (counted as number of households for census or taxation) |
| 神户proper-noun | shén hù | Kobe, city in Japan |
| 暴发户noun | bào fā hù | newly rich |
| 阴户noun | yīn hù | vulva |
| 开户verb | kāi hù | to open an account (bank etc) |
| 租户noun | zū hù | tenant |
| 足不出户 | zú bù chū hù | (idiom) to not leave one's home |
| 用户名noun | yòng hù míng | username |
户 appears in 100 compound words: 17 as the first character, 67 as the last, and 16 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 户 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (22)
to make known to every household (idiom); to disseminate widely; to shout from the rooftops
known to every household; ubiquitously known; widespread; extremely well-known
to make known to every household (idiom); to disseminate widely; to shout from the rooftops
Showing 12 of 22 idioms containing 户.
Example Sentences
家家户户都挂起了红灯笼，迎接新年的到来。
Jiā jiā hù hù dōu guà qǐ le hóng dēnglóng, yíngjiē xīnnián de dàolái.
Every household hung red lanterns to welcome the New Year.
紧急储蓄帐户可与401(k)计画结合 但很少雇主这样...
jǐn jí chǔ xù zhàng hù kě yǔ 4 0 1 ( k ) jì huà jié gě dàn hěn shǎo gù zhǔ zhè yàng . . .
Emergency savings accounts can be combined with 401(k) plans But few employers do...
中国网军4千帐户攻击高市早苗 矢板明夫:台日两国正面对相...
zhōng guó wǎng jūn 4 qiān zhàng hù gōng jī gāo shì zǎo miáo shǐ bǎn míng fū : tái rì liǎng guó zhèng miàn duì xiāng . . .
China's Cyber Army 4,000 accounts attacked Sanae Takaichi Akio Yaita: Taiwan and Japan are facing each other...
...】BLACKPINK官方YouTube订户破亿 艺人创举
. . . B L A C K P I N K guān fāng Y o u T u b e dìng hù pò yì yì rén chuàng jǔ
...] BLACKPINK's official YouTube subscribers exceed 100 million, an artist's first move
美国12月营建许可总数录得144.8万户,为202..
měi guó yuè yíng jiàn xǔ kě zǒng shǔ lù dé . mò hù , wéi . .
U.S. building permits totaled 1.448 million in December, up from 202...
用户报告多个网络服务出现问题
yòng hù bào gào duō gě wǎng lào fú wù chū xiàn wèn tí
Users report problems with multiple network services
我想开个储蓄帐户。
Wǒ xiǎngkāi gè chǔxùzhànghù.
I'd like to open a savings account.
汤姆故意弄碎了那扇窗户。
Tāngmǔ gùyì nòngsuì le nà shān chuānghu.
Tom broke the window on purpose.
你要不要成为可信赖用户？
Nǐ yàobù yào chéngwéi kěxìn lài yònghù?
Would you like to become a trusted user?
请您把那扇窗户关起来好吗？
Qǐng nín bǎ nà shān chuānghu guān qǐlai hǎo ma?
Can you please close that window?
Character Family
户 Radical Family — Characters sharing the door radical
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