荤 — Chinese character
荤
hūn
non-vegetarian food; garlic; a foul smell
- Pinyin
- hūn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 军
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 军
- Traditional
- 葷
Common words with 荤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荤菜 (葷菜) | hūn cài | non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc) |
| 荤段子 (葷段子) | hūn duàn zi | dirty joke |
| 开荤 (開葷) | kāi hūn | to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet; (fig.) to do sth as a novel experience |
| 荤腥 (葷腥) | hūn xīng | meat and fish |
| 荤笑话 (葷笑話) | hūn xiào hua | dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature |
| 荤素 (葷素) | hūn sù | meat and vegetable |
| 七荤八素 (七葷八素) | qī hūn bā sù | confused; distracted |
| 五荤 (五葷) | wǔ hūn | (Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and coriander |
| 有荤有素 (有葷有素) | yǒu hūn yǒu sù | to include both meat and vegetables |
| 油荤 (油葷) | yóu hūn | meat foods |
| 茹荤 (茹葷) | rú hūn | to eat meat |
| 茹荤饮酒 (茹葷飲酒) | rú hūn yǐn jiǔ | to eat meat and drink wine |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.