葷

See also: 荤

Translingual

Han character

葷 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿月十十 (TBJJ), four-corner 4450₆, composition ⿱艹軍)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1046, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31461
• Dae Jaweon: page 1508, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3257, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8477

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Chinese

trad.		葷
simp.		荤

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 葷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (軍) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
揮	*qʰul
輝	*qʰul
翬	*qʰul
暉	*qʰul
煇	*qʰul, *ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
楎	*qʰul, *ɡuːn
瀈	*qʰul
韗	*qʰons, *ɢuns
褌	*kuːn
鶤	*kuːn, *ɢuns
緷	*kuːnʔ, *ɡuːnʔ, *ɢuns
睴	*kuːns, *ɡuːnʔ
璭	*kuːns
瘒	*ŋɡuːn
顐	*ŋɡuːn, *ŋɡuːns, *ɡuːn
諢	*ŋɡuːns
餫	*ɡuːn, *ɢuns
渾	*ɡuːn, *ɡuːnʔ
琿	*ɡuːn
鼲	*ɡuːn
堚	*ɡuːn
鯶	*ɡuːnʔ
軍	*kun
皸	*kun, *kuns
齳	*ŋɡunʔ
喗	*ŋɡunʔ
葷	*qʰun
惲	*qunʔ
賱	*qunʔ
運	*ɢuns
暈	*ɢuns
鄆	*ɢuns

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 葷

1. (Buddhism) strong-smelling vegetables, such as spring onion, garlic and garlic chives
2. meat or fish dishes (as opposed to vegetarian dishes)
3. (figurative) low-class; obscene; vulgar; dirty

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xūn (xun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syun
    • Wade–Giles: hsün¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 葷

1. Only used in 葷粥／荤粥 and 葷鬻／荤鬻.

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Japanese

Kanji

葷

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. strong smelling
2. strong smelling vegetable, esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives (Allium tuberosum), Chinese scallion (Allium chinense), (Japanese garlic)
3. meat diet

Readings

• On (unclassified): くん (kun), ぐん (gun)
• Kun: なまぐさ (namagusa)

Compounds

Compounds

• 葷粥(くんいく) (kun'iku)
• 葷菜(くんさい) (kunsai)
• 葷酒(くんしゅ) (kunshu)
• 葷酒山門に入るを許さず (くんしゅさんもんにいるをゆるさず, kunshu sanmon ni iru o yurusazu)
• 葷辛(くんしん) (kunshin)
• 葷羶(くんせん) (kunsen)
• 五葷(ごくん) (gokun)

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Korean

Hanja

葷 • (hun) (hangeul 훈, McCune–Reischauer hun, Yale hwun)

1. meat diet
2. strong smelling

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 葷 (huân, hôi)

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