IDENTITY
狐húfox
HSK 4Top 1550
CORE MEANING
fox
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.foxHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 犭animal radical (quǎn)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰犭瓜
- animal
- gives the sound hú (historical)
USAGE
Common words
狐狸húlifox
狐疑húyísuspicion
Graded examples
狐狸住在森林里。Húli zhù zài sēnlín lǐ.HSK4
Foxes live in the forest.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 孤
LEARNING
Memory aid
The animal (犭) curved as a melon (瓜) — the sly fox.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1550
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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