Chinese Character Wiki

薰

xūn

a medicinal herb

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

herb

熏 sound component

熏  Sound component

xūn

  

smoke

Evolution

薰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
薰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
薰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

薰  

xūn

a medicinal herb; to cauterize; sweet-smelling grass; Coumarouna odorata; tonka beans; coumarin

熏 (薰) 

xūn

fragrance; warm; to educate; variant of 熏[xūn]; to smoke; to fumigate

Most common words with 薰
Freq.
Word
Meaning

薰

coumarin

小薰

Xiao Xun (1989-), Taiwan actress

薰衣草

lavender

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰu[n]

xjun

xūn

Allium

*qʷʰər

xjun

xūn

peaceful, harmonious


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.9931% of movies

3012th most common character in movies

4055th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+85B0

Shuowen

“薰，香艸也。从艸，熏聲。”


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