Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xūn
English
- a medicinal herb
- fragrance
- sweet-smelling grass
- to cauterize
- warm
- Coumarouna odorata
- to educate
- tonka beans
- variant of 熏[xun1]
- coumarin
- to smoke
- to fumigate
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 薰
- 薰陶fan1 tou4
to seep in
- 香薰hoeng1 fan1
aromatherapy
- 薰風fan1 fung1
warm southerly or southeasterly wind
- 薰衣草fan1 ji1 cou2
lavender (genus Lavandula)
- 小薰siu2 fan1
Xiao Xun (1989-), Taiwan actress
- 薰心fan1 sam1
(of greed, lust etc) to dominate one's thoughts
- 利慾薰心lei6 juk6 fan1 sam1
blinded by greed (idiom)
- 權慾薰心kyun4 juk6 fan1 sam1
obsessed by a craving for power
- 利祿薰心lei6 luk6 fan1 sam1
- 餓死老婆薰臭屋ngo6 sei2 lou5 po4 wan1 cau3 uk1
to be unable to earn enough money to feed one's wife [colloquial]
- 薰蕕不同器fan1 jau4 bat1 tung4 hei3
lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom)