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薰

xūn

Character

What 薰 means

1. sweet-smelling grass
2. Coumarouna odorata
3. tonka beans
4. coumarin

Words starting with 薰

• 薰衣草xūn yī cǎolavender (genus Lavandula)
• 薰莸不同器xūn yóu bù tóng qìlit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom)…

Words containing 薰

• 小薰Xiǎo XūnXiao Xun (1989-), Taiwan actress
• 香薰xiāng xūnaromatherapy

Characters built on 熏

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

• 醺xūnhelplessly intoxicated
• 獯xūnused in 獯鬻

Characters that look like 薰

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

• 蕾lěibud
• 黛dàiumber-black dye for painting the eyebrow
• 簧huángreed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 冀jì(literary) to hope for
• 篝gōubamboo frame for drying clothes; bamboo cage

Sounds the same

Read xūn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 熏to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils
• 荤used in 荤粥
• 勋(bound form) meritorious accomplishment
• 埙ocarina; wind instrument consisting of an egg-shaped chamber with holes
• 醺helplessly intoxicated
• 窨to scent tea with flowers; variant of 熏
• 獯used in 獯鬻
• 焄fumes from sacrifice
• 壎ancient porcelain wind-instrument
• 曛twilight; sunset
• 𫄸crimson
• 臐lamb soup