HSK 6 · Food

荤 hūn “meat dish” in Chinese

Traditional 葷

What 荤 means

  1. meat dish
  2. meat or fish
  3. strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc)
  4. non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc)

How to say 荤

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale荤hūn1st tone, high and level

荤 in a sentence

  1. 我不吃荤，只吃素。

    Wǒ bù chī hūn, zhǐ chī sù.

    I don’t eat meat; I only eat vegetarian food.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 这家饭馆的菜有荤有素。

    Zhè jiā fànguǎn de cài yǒu hūn yǒu sù.

    This restaurant has both meat and vegetable dishes.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 荤 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 荤 (hūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
荤hūnstrong-smelling vegetable
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 军army · jūnSound part

艹 hints at the meaning (grass); 军 (jūn) hints at the sound. Compare it with hūn.

How to write 荤

荤 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

荤 (hūn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 荤 (hūn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 荤

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FAQs

荤 (hūn) means “meat dish” or “meat or fish”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it hūn: hūn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 荤 is written 葷. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 荤 from the suggestions. Typing hun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
荤 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.