膻 — Chinese character
膻
shān
a flock of sheep; a rank odor
- Pinyin
- shān
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 亶
- Formation
- pictophonetic — meat; meaning component ⺼; sound component 亶
Common words with 膻
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膻中 | dàn zhōng | see 膻中穴 (dàn zhōng xué) |
| 如蚁附膻 (如蟻附膻) | rú yǐ fù shān | like ants pursuing a stink (idiom); the mob chases the rich and powerful; the crowd runs after trash |
| 膻中穴 | dàn zhōng xué | (TCM) acupuncture point CV-17, located in the middle of the chest |
| 猪膻味 (豬膻味) | zhū shān wèi | boar taint, the taste or odor of sweat or urine in pork from uncastrated pigs |
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.