to chatter; nonsense; blather

to talk rubbish

beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit

to act willfully and make a scene; to make trouble

surname Hu

non-Han people, esp. from central Asia; reckless; outrageous; what?; why?; to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])

carrot

babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings; double Dutch

(idiom) to indulge in flights of fancy; to let one's imagination run wild

pepper

Juan (Spanish given name)

to shave (facial hair)

beard; CL:根[gen1],綹|绺[liu3]

to act arbitrarily regardless of the rules; to mess with sth; to make a hash of things; to cause trouble

walnut

a bunch of nonsense

careless; reckless; casually; absent-mindedly; at will; at random; any old how

dead end; blind alley

Hoover (name); Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) US mining engineer and Republican politician, president (1929-1933)

nonsense; ridiculous talk; hogwash

Hook or Hooke (name); Robert Hooke (1635-1703), brilliant English experimental scientist and inventor

to mess around; to mess with something; to have an affair

lane; alley; CL:條|条[tiao2]

ground pepper (i.e. powder)

to run amok (idiom); to commit outrages

Eastern barbarian; ancient ethnic group of northeast frontier of China

erhu (Chinese 2-string fiddle); alto fiddle; CL:把[ba3]

Five non-Han people, namely: Huns or Xiongnu 匈奴[Xiong1 nu2], Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑[Xian1 bei1], Jie 羯[Jie2], Di 氐[Di1], Qiang 羌[Qiang1], esp. in connection with the Sixteen Kingdoms 304-439 五胡十六國|五胡十六国[Wu3 hu2 Shi2 liu4 guo2]

jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera; also called 京二胡

variant of 含糊[han2 hu5]

sihu (or "khuurchir" in Mongolian), a bowed instrument with four strings, primarily associated with Mongolian and Chinese culture

two-stringed bowed instrument; also called 墜琴|坠琴[zhui4 qin2]

a bowed stringed instrument with a thin wooden soundboard

Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense); root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)

variant of 模糊[mo2 hu5]

Jie people, a tribe of northern China around the 4th century

Hu music; central Asian music (e.g. as appreciated by Tang literati)

ethnic groups in the north and west of China in ancient times; foreigner; barbarian

Hu Jia (1973-), PRC dissident human rights activist

bandit (old)

to talk provokingly or nonsensically

to boast wildly

Zoroastrianism

Khufu (pharaoh, reigned possibly 2590-2568 BC)

to fool; to deceive; to go through the motions

to indulge in flights of fancy; to let one's imagination run wild

to act rashly

to disturb; to pester

variant of 糊塗|糊涂[hu2 tu5]