荤
hūnxūn

meat diet

荤 葷 hūn
meat or fish
Meat, fish, or food containing animal fats; the opposite of 素 sù
pungent vegetables
Strong-smelling vegetables like garlic, onions, or leeks that are traditionally avoided by some vegetarians and Buddhists; also called 五荤 wǔ​hūn
vulgar
Obscene or vulgar; often used to describe jokes or language that are sexually suggestive
荤 葷 xūn
(bound form) ethnic group name
(bound form) used in ancient names for non-Han ethnic groups like the 荤粥 xūn​yù

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Frequency
Character
Written text
4,295th most common 2.17 per million
Movie subtitles
4,012th most common 0.580 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.570 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.74 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
Traditional
葷
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8364

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)