葷
葷 — hun
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 매운 채소 훈
- Romanization
- hun
- English
- meat diet; strong smelling
- Mandarin
- hūn
- Japanese on'yomi
- クン
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 艸 (140, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8477
Japanese words with 葷
- 葷くん strong-smelling vegetable (esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives, Chinese scallion, Japanese garlic); pungent vegetable (esp. ginger and water pepper)
- 葷酒くんしゅ pungent vegetables (e.g. garlic or Chinese chives) and alcohol; leeks and liquors
- 五葷ごくん five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)
- 葷羶くんせん pungent vegetables and raw-smelling meat
- 葷辛くんしん pungent vegetable (e.g. garlic, onion)
- 葷菜くんさい pungent vegetable (e.g. onion, garlic, leek)
- 三厭五葷さんえんごくん meat and the five pungent roots (avoided in Buddhist cuisine)
- 葷酒山門に入るを許さずくんしゅさんもんにいるをゆるさず bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)