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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)
开荤
kāihūn
to resume a meat diet
茹荤
rúhūn
to eat meat
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)
荤油
hūnyóu
lard
荤素
hūnsù
meat and vegetable
荤笑话
hūnxiàohuà
dirty jokes
茹荤饮酒
rúhūnyǐnjiǔ
to eat meat and drink wine
七荤八素
qīhūnbāsù
confused
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 4,294
- Word Frequency Rank
- 3,492 of 84,292