蝴 (hú): butterfly (in 蝴蝶)
蝴 (hú) is a Chinese character meaning “butterfly (in 蝴蝶).” Classified as HSK Level 5 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 虫 (semantic) and 胡 (phonetic). It ranks #2735 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 蝴 insect. Its radical form 虫 (insect) appears in many related characters such as 虫 (chóng, insect), 蝶 (dié, butterfly (in 蝴蝶)), 蜂 (fēng, bee).
Definitions
- butterfly (in 蝴蝶)
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 蝴
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蝴蝶结noun | hú dié jié | bow |
| 蝴蝶领结 | hú dié lǐng jié | bow tie |
| 蝴蝶效应noun | hú dié xiào yìng | butterfly effect (dynamical systems theory) |
| 蝴蝶花noun | hú dié huā | iris |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶派 | yuān yang hú dié pài | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) literary school around 1900, criticized as populist and romantic by so... |
| 蝴蝶兰 | hú dié lán | moth orchid (genus Phalaenopsis) |
| 鸳鸯蝴蝶phrase | yuān yang hú dié | Mandarin ducks and butterfly (i.e. love birds) |
| 蝴蝶琴noun | hú dié qín | same as yangqin 揚琴|扬琴, dulcimer |
| 蝴蝶铰 | hú dié jiǎo | hinge |
| 蝴蝶犬noun | hú dié quǎn | papillon (lapdog with butterfly-like ears) |
| 蝴蝶酥noun | hú dié sū | crispy short-crust pastry |
蝴 appears in 12 compound words: 83 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 17 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 蝴 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
春天到了，花园里到处都飞舞着五颜六色的蝴蝶。
Chūntiān dào le, huāyuán lǐ dàochù dōu fēiwǔ zhe wǔyánliùsè de húdié.
Spring has arrived, and colorful butterflies are dancing everywhere in the garden.
《小狗抓蝴蝶》的导演瓦力张读这部剧前十集剧本时便发现了它的与众不同。
xiǎo gǒu zhuā hú dié de dǎo yǎn wǎ lì zhāng dòu zhè bù jù qián shí jí jù běn shí biàn fā xiàn le tā de yǔ zhòng bù tóng .
Wali Zhang, the director of *The Puppy Catches a Butterfly*, realized how unique the show was as soon as he read the scripts for the first ten episodes.
好在我们的门票里包含了蝴蝶岩玻璃栈桥，可以走在玻璃栈桥上更近距离的观察蝴蝶岩瀑布。
hǎo zài wǒ men de mén piào lǐ bāo hán le hú dié yán bō lí 栈 qiáo , kě yǐ zǒu zài bō lí 栈 qiáo shàng gēng jìn jù lí de guàn chá hú dié yán bào bù .
Fortunately, our tickets included access to the Butterfly Rock Glass Walkway, so we could walk along it and get a closer look at the Butterfly Rock Waterfall.
...蒋万安儿童节前祭育儿大礼 又要掀起全国“蝴蝶效应”?
. . . Jiǎng wàn ān ér tóng jié qián jì yù ér dà lǐ yòu yāo xiān qǐ quán guó hú dié xiào yīng ?
...Jiang Wan'an Unveils Major Child-Rearing Incentives Ahead of Children's Day—Will This Trigger Another Nationwide "Butterfly Effect"?
神农开物:“太空蝴蝶”破蛹展翅,我国太空生物试验取得新进展
shén nóng kāi wù : tài kōng hú dié pò 蛹 zhǎn chì , wǒ guó tài kōng shēng wù shì yàn qǔ dé xīn jìn zhǎn
Shennong Kaiwu: "Space butterfly" broke the chrysalis and spread its wings, and new progress was made in China's space biological experiments
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 虫 (insect) component
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