HUA n : an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors]

Mandarin

Pronoun

1. speech; talk; conversation; words; sayings; story
2. language; parole
3. dialect

Pinyin syllable

hua

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, huā, huá, huǎ, or huà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Hua or HUA may refer to:

• Huaxia, a name of China.
• Hua (surname), a Chinese surname
• Huá (滑), Chinese etymology of 滑.
• Hua (state), a state in ancient China prior to being destroyed by Qin Dynasty.
• Uar, the self designation (endonymic ethnicon) used by the Hephthalites.
• Hua people, living in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.

HUA as an acronym can refer to:

• Heard Understood Acknowledged, used in the U.S. military. See hooah.
• Harkat-ul-Ansar, an Islamic paramilitary organization