葷 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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hūn

meat diet

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

軍 Sound component

jūn

army

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

hūn

meat diet; strong smelling; strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene

Most common words with 葷

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	荤	vulgar
	荤菜	non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
	七荤八素	confused
	荤腥	meat and fish
	开荤	to resume a meat diet

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*qʰu[n]	xjun	xūn	Allium

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4295th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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