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荤
葷
hūn
1.
strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc)
2.
non-vegetarian food (meat, fish, spicy food etc)
3.
vulgar
4.
obscene
HSK 6
Very Common • Top 4%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (10)
茹荤
rúhūn
to eat meat
荤油
hūnyóu
lard
荤素
hūnsù
meat and vegetable
荤腥
hūnxīng
meat and fish
荤菜
hūncài
non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
荤辛
hūnxīn
very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
开荤
kāihūn
to resume a meat diet
荤笑话
hūnxiàohuà
dirty jokes
七荤八素
qīhūnbāsù
confused
茹荤饮酒
rúhūnyǐnjiǔ
to eat meat and drink wine
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 4,294
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,492 of 84,292