hu
Example Sentences
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In Mandarin, ma means horse and hu means tiger; the idiom mamahuhu literally translates, then, as “horse horse tiger tiger.”
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
Request the “dry” version of hu tieu, with the broth served on the side instead of as a soup.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2018
I stuttered over “hu … hu … hu …”, and then, feeling embarrassed at my own stupidity, I finished with: “Violet’s father.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2017
We shall typically assume that each of these functions has continuous first partial derivatives, which means gu, gv, hu, and hv exist and are also continuous.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
The hu was originally used to make memoranda on of the business to be submitted by the bearer to the Emperor or to write the answers to questions he had had submitted to them.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
