Dong Chinese dictionary

xūn

smoke

Depicts fragrant herbs inside a bag (東). The 灬 (fire) component was later added to emphasize that fragrant herbs were usually smoked with fire.

Components

東 Iconic component

dōng

east

Depicts a bag.

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 東 than it was in ancient scripts.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts fragrant herbs inside a bag.

灬 Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

Evolution

Seal script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

熏

xūn

smoke, fog, vapor; smoke, cure; to smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils; to perfume

熏 (燻)

xūn

variant of 熏[xūn]

熏 (薰)

xūn

fragrance; warm; to educate

Most common words with 熏

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	熏	warm
	熏肉	bacon
	熏陶	to seep in
	熏蒸	to fumigate
	利欲熏心	blinded by greed (idiom)

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

燻

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

漢語多功能字庫

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