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Huijun Zhao

Huijun Zhao (赵惠军) is an Australian electrochemist and Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, known for nanostructured and single-atom electrocatalysts for water splitting, renewable hydrogen, and the PeCOD water-quality sensor.

Huikan

Huikan (慧偘) is a name associated with a Sui dynasty Buddhist monk traditionally dated 524–605; no consulted source verifies his life, and he is easily confused with the meditation master Huike.

Huike

Huike (慧可), also known as Shenguang, was the Chinese monk who transmitted Bodhidharma's meditation teaching and is honored as the Second Patriarch of Chan Buddhism.

Huike Showing His Severed Arm

Huike Showing His Severed Arm (慧可断臂図) is a 1496 ink hanging scroll by the Japanese Zen painter Sesshū Tōyō, showing Huike offering his severed arm to Bodhidharma.

Huíla Plateau

Huíla Plateau (Planalto da Huíla), southwestern Angolan highland rising to about 2,300 m above arid coastal plains; Lubango sits on it; western escarpment over 300 km long; drier southwestern edge of the miombo ecoregion.

Huíla Province

Huíla Province (Huíla) is Angola's second most populous province, capital Lubango, 79,022 km², 3.3 million people in the 2024 census, an agricultural and livestock economy with the Cassinga iron mine.

Huila, Nevado del

Nevado del Huila is Colombia's highest active volcano (5,364 m), a stratovolcano-dome complex in Cauca, Huila, and Tolima. Its 2007–2010 eruptions built a summit lava dome and produced lahars larger than the 1985 Armero flow; it is now at yellow alert under SGC monitoring.

Huilan

Huilan (慧览) was a Buddhist monk of Zhongxing Temple in the Capital during the Liu Song dynasty (420–479), with a biography in Huijiao's Gaoseng zhuan.

Huileng

Huileng (慧棱, 854–932) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk and Dharma heir of Xuefeng Yicun who led monasteries in Quanzhou and Fuzhou and received the posthumous title Chaojue Dashi.

Huilin

Huilin (慧林) is a name attributed to a Ming-dynasty Buddhist monk of 1482–1558 who lacks a verified biography, and borne by several well-attested earlier monks.

Huilong Surface Mine

The Huilong Surface Mine is an open-pit coal mine in Jungar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, whose capacity was raised from 3.0 to 6.0 Mt/a in 2021.

Huimin Zhao

Huimin Zhao is a synthetic biologist and chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who develops machine learning, laboratory automation, and photoenzymatic tools for engineering proteins and metabolic pathways.

Huiming Bao

Huiming Bao (鲍惠铭) is a Chinese isotope geochemist who used sulfate oxygen-17 anomalies to show ultra-high CO2 after a global glaciation about 630 million years ago.

Huineng

Huineng (惠能), traditionally 638–713, was a Chan Buddhist monk of Shaozhou, southern China, regarded as the sixth patriarch of Chan and founder of its Southern school.

Huineng Changtan power station

Huineng Changtan power station (汇能集团长滩电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Junggar Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, owned by Inner Mongolia Huineng Group, with four 660 MW units completed in 2023 and 2026.

Huione Group

Huione Group is a Cambodia-based, Hong Kong-registered conglomerate founded around 2014 as a currency exchange, which the US Treasury identified in 2025 as a primary money laundering concern serving Southeast Asia's cyber-scam industry.

Huipil

Huipil (Nahuatl huipilli, güipil): sleeveless Mesoamerican women's tunic of one to three backstrap-loom woven rectangular panels with a neck opening, worn in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, with community-specific motifs and pre-conquest origins.

Huis ten Bosch

Huis ten Bosch is the residential palace of the Dutch king in the Haagse Bos, The Hague. Built from 1645 by Pieter Post for Frederik Hendrik and Amalia van Solms, its Oranjezaal honors the stadtholder; renovated 2016–2019.

Huis Ten Bosch (site)

Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス) is a Dutch-town-themed park and resort in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, opened March 25, 1992 on 152 hectares with a 220.4 billion yen investment, full-size Dutch building replicas, and 6 km of canals.

Huishang Bank

Huishang Bank (徽商银行) is a Chinese city commercial bank headquartered in Hefei, Anhui, formed by merger in 2005, listed in Hong Kong since 2013, with over RMB2 trillion in assets.

Huisheng Biopharmaceuticals (惠升生物)

Huisheng Biopharmaceuticals (惠升生物) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company in Meihekou, Jilin, controlled by Sihuan Pharmaceutical and focused on diabetes and metabolic-disease drugs, including insulins and an SGLT-2 inhibitor.

Huisi

Huisi (慧思, 515–577), also called Nanyue Huisi, was a Chinese meditation master of the Northern and Southern dynasties who taught the Lotus Sutra practice his disciple Zhiyi systematized into the Tiantai school.

Huisman Equipment

Huisman Equipment is a Dutch manufacturer of heavy construction equipment such as offshore cranes, pipelay systems, and winches, headquartered in Schiedam and founded in 1929.

Huissen-Hazebergh

Huissen-Hazebergh (Huissen-Hazeberg, Huissen-Hazeheuvel) is a disputed possible Roman castellum near Huissen, Gelderland, on the Dutch Rhine limes; a 1951 excavation suggested a fort, but Willems (1986) argues the finds were moved from Loowaard or Arnhem-Meinerswijk.

Huitongda

Huitongda Network Co., Ltd. is a Chinese commerce platform, founded in 2010 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, that supplies and digitizes town-and-village retail stores.

Huitzilihuitl

Huitzilihuitl (Nahuatl for "hummingbird feather") was the second tlatoani, or ruler, of Mexico-Tenochtitlan from the 1390s to 1417, ruling as a subordinate ally of the Tepanec empire.

Huītzilōpōchtli

Huītzilōpōchtli (Huitzilopochtli), "left hummingbird", was the Mexica god of war and sun, patron deity of Tenochtitlan, born fully armed at Coatepec, honored in the Templo Mayor and the festival Panquetzaliztli.

Huiwei

Huiwei (慧威, also written 惠威, 634–713) was a Tang dynasty Buddhist monk of Wuzhou Dongyang counted as the seventh Tiantai patriarch, between Zhiwei and Zuoxi Xuanlang.

Huixing

Huixing (回兴街道) is a subdistrict of Yubei District, Chongqing, in Liangjiang New Area; named in 1940 from Huilong Town and Chongxing Township, now a 16.42 km² residential and industrial street with 11 communities.

Huiyan

Huiyan (慧严, 363–443/444) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty, a student of Kumārajīva who co-edited the thirty-six-volume southern recension of the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra in 436.