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荤

hūn

meat diet

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 军 represents the sound. Simplified form of 葷.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

军 sound component

军  Sound component

jūn

  

army

Evolution

荤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
荤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
荤 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
荤 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

荤 (葷) 

hūn

meat diet; strong smelling; strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene

Most common words with 荤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荤

vulgar

荤菜

non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)

七荤八素

confused

荤腥

meat and fish

开荤

to resume a meat diet