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
Evolution

Seal script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 熏
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
warm | ||
bacon | ||
to seep in | ||
to fumigate | ||
blinded by greed (idiom) |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
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。” |
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