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

Father Ximenes, who translated the Livre Sacrè, derives the name from the Quiché hu rakan, one foot.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison