忽悠
hū you
Pinyin

Definition

忽悠
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hū you
  1. to rock
  2. to sway
  3. to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water)
  4. to flutter (e.g. of a flag)
  5. to trick sb into doing sth
  6. to dupe
  7. to con

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

忽然
hū rán
  1. 1 suddenly
  2. 2 all of a sudden
忽略
hū lu:è
  1. 1 to neglect
  2. 2 to overlook
  3. 3 to ignore
忽冷忽热
hū lěng hū rè
  1. 1 now hot, now cold
  2. 2 (of one's mood, affection etc) to alternate
忽忽
hū hū
  1. 1 fleeting (of quick passage time)
  2. 2 in a flash
  3. 3 distracted manner
  4. 4 vacantly
  5. 5 frustratedly
忽悠
hū you
  1. 1 to rock
  2. 2 to sway
  3. 3 to flicker (e.g. of lights reflected on water)
  4. 4 to flutter (e.g. of a flag)
  5. 5 to trick sb into doing sth
  6. 6 to dupe
  7. 7 to con

Idioms (3)

悠哉悠哉
yōu zāi yōu zāi
  1. 1 free and unconstrained (idiom)
  2. 2 leisurely and carefree
积于忽微
jī yú hū wēi
  1. 1 to accumulate tiny quantities (idiom)
飘忽不定
piāo hū bù dìng
  1. 1 to drift without a resting place (idiom)
  2. 2 roving
  3. 3 errant
  4. 4 vagrant
  5. 5 erratic

Sample Sentences

现在窗外还是漆黑一片，估计都没到四点呢，你又想忽悠我。
xiànzài chuāngwài háishì qīhēi yīpiàn ，gūjì dōu méi dào sì diǎn ne ，nǐ yòu xiǎng hūyou wǒ 。
It's still pitch black outside, it can't be even 4am yet, are you messing with me again?
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这样行吗？我和老婆为了装修这事儿已经吵了好几回了。你可别拿我们当试验品，忽悠我们啊。
zhèyàng xíng ma ？wǒ hé lǎopo wèi le zhuāngxiū zhè shìr yǐjīng chǎo le hǎojǐhuí le 。nǐ kě bié ná wǒ men dàng shìyànpǐn ，hūyou wǒ men a 。
Will that work? My wife and I have already fought a couple times over this issue. Don't use us as guinea pigs and give us a lot of b.s.!
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别听他们瞎说，那是忽悠你们这些大学生的。
bié tīng tāmen xiāshuō ，nà shì hūyou nǐmen zhèxiē dàxuéshēng de 。
Don’t listen to that nonsense, that’s just stuff they say to fool you college students.
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看看你，被人家忽悠买了一堆不需要的东西，还以为捡了大便宜。你这是被动消费你知道吗？
kàn kan nǐ ，bèi rénjiā hūyou mǎi le yīduī bù xūyào de dōngxi ，hái yǐwéi jiǎn le dà piányi 。nǐ zhè shì bèidòngxiāofèi nǐ zhīdào ma ？
Look at you. You have been duped into buying a pile of stuff you don't need, and you think you got a great bargain. Do you realize this is passive consumerism?
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老板都是忽悠人的，哪个都叫清晰版高清版。要买就买D9版或者大碟版。
lǎobǎn dōu shì hūyou rén de ，nǎge dōu jiào qīngxī bǎn gāoqīng bǎn 。yào mǎi jiù mǎi D jiǔ bǎn huò zhě dàdié bǎn 。
Those guys always trick people. Everything is clear and HD with them. If you're going to buy fake DVDs, buy either D9 or copies of the official version.
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这个赵杰克也太牛了。靠这一纸假洋文凭不知道忽悠了多少人。
zhè ge Zhào Jiékè yě tài niú le 。kào zhè yī zhǐ jiǎ yáng wénpíng bù zhīdào hūyou le duōshao rén 。
This Jack Zhao is impressive. I wonder how many people he tricked with his fake foreign degree.
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