Chinese word dictionary

荤辛

hūn xīn · very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)

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Word information

Simplified荤辛

Traditional葷辛

Pinyinhūn xīn

Part of speechDictionary

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

荤hūn

non-vegetarian food; garlic; a foul smell

辛xīn

bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem

How to learn 荤辛

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Words with the same characters

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辛苦xīnkǔ

exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)

艰辛jiānxīn

hardships; arduous; difficult

荤hūn

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

辛勤xīnqín

hardworking; industrious

辛酸xīnsuān

pungent (taste); bitter; fig. sad; miserable