葷

garlic

12 strokes.

Readings

• クン (on reading): 葷 (くん) strong-smelling vegetable (esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives, Chinese scallion, Japanese garlic); 葷酒 (くんしゅ) pungent vegetables (e.g. garlic or Chinese chives) and alcohol

Components

• 艹
• 軍
• 冖 radical cover
• ⺾ radical grass, top form of 艸
• 車 radical cart; wheel

Words using 葷

• 葷 (くん) strong-smelling vegetable (esp. garlic, onion, Chinese chives, Chinese scallion, Japanese garlic)
• 葷酒 (くんしゅ) pungent vegetables (e.g. garlic or Chinese chives) and alcohol
• 五葷 (ごくん) five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)
• 葷酒山門に入るを許さず (くんしゅさんもんにいるをゆるさず) bringing pungent vegetables or liquor inside the temple is prohibited
• 三厭五葷 (さんえんごくん) meat and the five pungent roots (avoided in Buddhist cuisine)

8 words in all.

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