Chinese Character Wiki
熏

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

東  Iconic component

dōng

  

east

Depicts a bag.

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts fragrant herbs inside a bag.

灬 meaning component

灬  Meaning component

biāo, huǒ

  

fire

灬 is a component form of 火.

Evolution

熏 Seal script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Seal script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
熏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
熏 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
熏 Regular script Modern

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)

勳 燻 薰 醺 獯 曛

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰu[n]

xjun

xūn

smoke (v.); vapor, odor


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.1028% of movies

2301st most common character in movies

2997th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+718F

Shuowen

“熏，火煙上出也。从屮，从黑。屮黑，熏黑也。”


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Creative Commons License