熏

薰
xūn
#2,991 most
frequent character
fragrance, warm, to educate

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

熏 began as a picture of a bag marked with dots. That picture gave the first meaning, to smoke or cure, as in curing meat. The meaning later grew to gas poisoning or suffocation, read xùn.

Drawn as: bag marked with dots

熏 as a component in other characters

sound5 characters
薰醺獯曛勳
picture1 character
燻

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Same Characters, Different Readings

熏xūn
to smoke, to fumigate
熏xūn
variant of 熏[xun1]

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