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荤

hūn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 葷

What 荤 means

1. strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc)
2. non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc)
3. vulgar
4. obscene

Other readings

荤 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• xūnused in {荤粥|Xūn yù}

Words starting with 荤

• 荤菜hūn càinon-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
• 荤油hūn yóulard; animal fat
• 荤粥Xūn yùXunyu, an ethnic group of northern China in ancient times
• 荤素hūn sùmeat and vegetable
• 荤腥hūn xīngmeat and fish
• 荤话hūn huàobscene speech; crude language
• 荤辛hūn xīnvery pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
• 荤段子hūn duàn zidirty joke
• 荤笑话hūn xiào huadirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature

Words containing 荤

• 油荤yóu hūnmeat foods
• 茹荤rú hūnto eat meat
• 开荤kāi hūnto eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet…
• 有荤有素yǒu hūn yǒu sùto include both meat and vegetables
• 茹荤饮酒rú hūn yǐn jiǔto eat meat and drink wine
• 五荤wǔ hūn(Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and…
• 七荤八素qī hūn bā sùconfused; distracted

Characters built on 军

These share the phonetic component 军 (jūn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 晕yūnconfused; dizzy; giddy
• 浑húnmuddy; turbid; brainless; foolish; (bound form) simple; natural
• 诨hùnjest; nickname
• 郓yùnused in 郓城
• 珲hún(fine jade)
• 皲jūnto chap
• 恽Yùnsurname Yun

Characters that look like 荤

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 柔róusoft; flexible; supple
• 冤yuāninjustice; grievance; wrong
• 栗lì(literary) cold; chilly; (bound form) to tremble with fear
• 莺yīngoriole or various birds of the Sylvidae family including warblers
• 衮gǔnimperial robe
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave

Sounds the same

Read hūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 婚(bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry
• 昏muddle-headed; twilight; to faint
• 阍doorkeeper
• 惛confused; forgetful; silly
• 殙to die by taking poison
• 睯gloomy; depressed
• 碈used in place names