花里胡哨

gaudy / flashy (but without substance)

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surname Hua

= + : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
flower / blossom / CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4] / fancy pattern / florid / to spend (money, time) / (coll.) lecherous / lustful

= + : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
old variant of 花[hua1]

= + : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
variant of 花[hua1] / flower / blossom / also pr. [wei3]

= + : Helga Horse found an interesting way of converting artificial lawn into a flower with the help of a transformer. In front of the ashram, she feeds the artificial lawn to the input of the transformer, and watches a flower grow at the output.
variant of 裡|里[li3]
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels
surname Hu
non-Han people, esp. from central Asia / reckless / outrageous / what? / why? / to complete a winning hand at mahjong (also written 和[hu2])
see 衚衕|胡同[hu2 tong4]
beard / mustache / whiskers

= + : Helga Horse (hu) visits the old and wise moon (月) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). She wants to join his cloister (古), but the moon rejects and says that first she has to get a very long Confucius style mustache (胡) such as his own.
a whistle / sentry

= + : The little prince (肖) took a part time job working as a sentry (哨) for Sherlock Holmes (sh). In the aortas's bathroom (ao4) he whistles (哨), thereby giving the secret signal to Sherlock. Sherlock answers by holding up a mandarin (口), which is the secret signal of acknowledgement.

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