熏
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Translingual
Han character
熏 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹土火 (HGF), four-corner 20331)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 679, character 17
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19300
- Dae Jaweon: page 1091, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2226, character 10
- Unihan data for U+718F
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
熏 | |
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| alternative forms | 燻 爋 𤑕 煇 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 熏 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kəw-n/t (“smoke”). Compare also 葷 (OC *qʰun, “smelling vegetables”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): fan1
- Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hiun1
- Eastern Min (BUC): hŏng
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hong1 / huong1
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syun
- Wade–Giles: hsün1
- Yale: syūn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiun
- Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕyn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: fan1
- Yale: fān
- Cantonese Pinyin: fan1
- Guangdong Romanization: fen1
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: hŏng
- Sinological IPA (key): /houŋ⁵⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: hong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /hɔŋ⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: huong1
- Sinological IPA (key): /huoŋ⁵³³/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
Note:
- hung1 - Chaozhou, Shantou, Chenghai;
- hang1 - Jieyang, Pontianak.
- Middle Chinese: xjun
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰu/
- (Zhengzhang): /*qʰun/
Definitions
熏
- smoke; fog
- warm (used in 熏風)
- to smoke (same as 薰); to cure meat (same as 燻)
- to infuse tea with scented flowers (same as 窨)
- a surname: Xun
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: syùn
- Wade–Giles: hsün4
- Yale: syùn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiunn
- Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕyn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: fan3
- Yale: fan
- Cantonese Pinyin: fan3
- Guangdong Romanization: fen3
- Sinological IPA (key): /fɐn³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
熏
- suffocation due to coal gas
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “熏”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 271.
Japanese
Kanji
熏
Readings
Korean
Hanja
熏 • (hun) (hangeul 훈, revised hun, McCune–Reischauer hun, Yale hwun)
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Vietnamese
Han character
熏: Hán Nôm readings: hun, huân
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