五荤 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

wǔ five

Origin unclear. Originally an X-shape.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

伍吾

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

伍

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nguX	C.ŋˤaʔ	five

說文解字

《說文》：“五，五行也。从二。陰陽在天地間交午也。，古文五省。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

hūn, xūn meat diet Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 军 represents the sound. Simplified form of 葷.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

军 Sound component

jūn army

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode

meat diet Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 軍 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

軍 Sound component

jūn army

Character Evolution

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	xjun	qʰu[n]	Allium
Zhengzhang		qʰun

說文解字

臭菜也。从艸軍聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

五 wǔ five

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (1 of 2 verified)

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

荤 hūn, xūn meat diet Simplified

Components

Sources

葷 meat diet Traditional

Components

Character Evolution

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

wǔ five

hūn, xūn meat diet Simplified

meat diet Traditional