1 Shanghai municipality, central east China, abbr. to 滬|沪[Hù]

1 to eat

2 to consume

3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)

4 to eradicate

5 to destroy

6 to absorb

7 to suffer

8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])

1 to have a meal

2 to eat

3 to make a living

1 to drink

2 variant: 嗬 hē

1 Shanghai municipality in southeast China, abbr. 滬|沪

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

1 you can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot (idiom)

1 lit. the gate of a noble house is like the sea

2 there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people (idiom)

1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.