荤
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strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艸 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 葷
- Common rank
- #2,571
- Unicode
- U+8364
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 荤
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有荤有素 | to include both meat and vegetables | |
| 七荤八素 | confused; distracted | |
| 荤笑话 | dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature | |
| 荤段子 | dirty joke | |
| 开荤 | to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet; (fig.) to do sth as a novel experie… | |
| 油荤 | meat foods | |
| 荤油 | lard; animal fat | |
| 荤话 | obscene speech; crude language | |
| 荤素 | meat and vegetable | |
| 五荤 | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and cor… | |
| 荤菜 | non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc) | |
| 茹荤饮酒 | to eat meat and drink wine | |
| 荤辛 | very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term) | |
| 荤粥 | Xunyu, an ethnic group of northern China in ancient times | |
| 茹荤 | to eat meat | |
| 荤腥 | meat and fish |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 军 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 军 sound part | army, military; soldiers, troops | |
| 晕 | dizzy, faint, foggy; to see stars | |
| 浑 | blended, mixed; muddy, turbid | |
| 辉 | brightness, luster | |
| 诨 | joke, jest; nickname; obscene joke | |
| 晖 | sunshine; light; bright, radiant | |
| 珲 | bright, glorious, splendid | |
| 郓 | an ancient town; surname | |
| 皲 | chapped, cracked |