忽 (hū)
suddenly / to neglect
How 忽 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 勹 — wrap
- Traditional
- 忽
- Simplified
- 忽 (unchanged)
Components
- 勹 wrap
- 心 heart
Common words using 忽
- 忽然 hūrán
- suddenly; all of a sudden
- 忽悠 hūyou
- to rock; to sway; to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water)
- 忽略 hūlüè
- to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
- 忽視 hūshì
- to neglect; to ignore
- 倏忽 shūhū
- (literary) suddenly
- 忽上忽下 hūshànghūxià
- to fluctuate sharply
- 忽地 hūde
- suddenly
- 忽忽 hūhū
- fleeting (of quick passage time); in a flash; distracted manner
- 忽聞 hūwén
- to hear suddenly; to learn of sth unexpectedly
- 忽閃 hūshǎn
- to glitter; to gleam; to sparkle
- 忽隱忽現 hūyǐnhūxiàn
- intermittent; now you see it, now you don't
- 恍忽 huǎnghū
- variant of 恍惚[huang3 hu1]
忽 in a sentence
天空忽然下起了大雨，大家都跑去躲雨。
Tiānkōng hūrán xiàqǐle dàyǔ, dàjiā dōu pǎo qù duǒyǔ.
“The sky suddenly started pouring rain, and everyone ran to take shelter.”
How common is 忽?
忽 is the 910th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.6% of all running text.
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