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xūn
HSK 7freq #7339

Meanings

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xūn
  1. 1.fragrance
  2. 2.warm
  3. 3.to educate
  4. 4.variant of 熏[xūn]
  5. 5.to smoke
  6. 6.to fumigate
xūn
  1. 1.sweet-smelling grass
  2. 2.Coumarouna odorata
  3. 3.tonka beans
  4. 4.coumarin

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.fragrance of flowers
  2. 2.coumarou, tonka bean
  3. 3.cigarette; smoke (Classifier: 支 mn)
  4. 4.to smoke
  5. 5.to cauterize

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qʰun, *qʰuns): semantic 艹 + phonetic 熏 (OC *qʰun). However, the phonetic component is a reference to smoked herbs; it is also the original form of this character, so it indicates part of the meaning.

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