xūn
a medicinal herb
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qʰu[n] | xjun | xūn | Allium |
*qʷʰər | xjun | xūn | peaceful, harmonious |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.9931% of movies
3012th most common character in movies
4055th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+85B0 |
Shuowen | “薰,香艸也。从艸,熏聲。” |
Sources
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