互
mutual
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,202 U+4E92
How 互 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Two hooks hooking eachother
How to remember it
mutual · Heisig RSH #681
wall
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 互 as their sound component
These characters all use 互 (hù) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 互 sound component | hù | mutually, reciprocally |
| 冱 | hù | freezing; stopped up, closed off |
Words containing 互
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 互通有无 | hù tōng yǒu wú | (idiom) mutual exchange of assistance; to benefit from each other's strengths and make up … |
| 互助土族自治县 | Hù zhù Tǔ zú Zì zhì xiàn | Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, in Haidong City 海東市|海东市[Hai3 dong1 Shi4], Qinghai |
| 核相互作用 | hé xiāng hù zuò yòng | nuclear interaction |
| 国家互联网信息办公室 | Guó jiā Hù lián wǎng Xìn xī Bàn gōng shì | Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) |
| 强相互作用 | qiáng xiāng hù zuò yòng | strong interaction (in particle physics); strong force |
| 相互作用 | xiāng hù zuò yòng | to interact; interaction; interplay |
| 互动电视 | hù dòng diàn shì | interactive TV |
| 电磁相互作用 | diàn cí xiāng hù zuò yòng | electromagnetic interaction (between particles); electromagnetic force (physics) |
| 开放系统互连 | kāi fàng xì tǒng hù lián | open systems interconnection; OSI |
| 互通性 | hù tōng xìng | interoperability (of communications equipment) |
| 相互关系 | xiāng hù guān xì | interrelationship |
| 平等互利 | píng děng hù lì | mutual benefit; to share profits equitably |
| 互相联系 | hù xiāng lián xì | mutually related; interconnected |
| 互相连接 | hù xiāng lián jiē | interlinked |
| 茶马互市 | Chá mǎ hù shì | old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state… |
| 互生叶 | hù shēng yè | alternate phyllotaxy (leaf pattern) |
| 国际互联网络 | guó jì hù lián wǎng luò | Internet |
| 弱相互作用 | ruò xiāng hù zuò yòng | weak interaction (in particle physics); weak force |
| 互联网 | Hù lián wǎng | Internet |
| 互为因果 | hù wéi yīn guǒ | mutually related karma (idiom); fates are intertwined; interdependent |