荤

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

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

艹 (semantic, “plant”) + 军 (phonetic, jūn)

components: 艹军

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 军

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 军 (jūn) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
军 sound component	jūn	army, military; soldiers, troops
晕	yūn	dizzy, faint, foggy; to see stars
浑	hún	blended, mixed; muddy, turbid
辉	huī	brightness, luster
诨	hùn	joke, jest; nickname; obscene joke
晖	huī	sunshine; light; bright, radiant
珲	hún	bright, glorious, splendid
郓	yùn	an ancient town; surname
皲	jūn	chapped, cracked

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
有荤有素	yǒu hūn yǒu sù	to include both meat and vegetables
七荤八素	qī hūn bā sù	confused; distracted
荤笑话	hūn xiào hua	dirty jokes; jokes of a visceral nature
荤段子	hūn duàn zi	dirty joke
开荤	kāi hūn	to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet; (fig.) to do sth as a novel experie…
油荤	yóu hūn	meat foods
荤油	hūn yóu	lard; animal fat
荤话	hūn huà	obscene speech; crude language
荤素	hūn sù	meat and vegetable
五荤	wǔ hūn	(Buddhism etc) the five forbidden pungent vegetables: leek, scallion, garlic, rape and cor…
荤菜	hūn cài	non-vegetarian dish (including meat, fish, garlic, onion etc)
茹荤饮酒	rú hūn yǐn jiǔ	to eat meat and drink wine
荤辛	hūn xīn	very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
荤粥	Xūn yù	Xunyu, an ethnic group of northern China in ancient times
茹荤	rú hūn	to eat meat
荤腥	hūn xīng	meat and fish