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Kanji Detail for 腥 - "rank, raw meat, filthy"

  • Meaning

    腥 means "rank, raw meat, filthy."

    1. Rank - Having a strong fishy smell.

    2. Raw meat - Uncooked flesh.

    3. Filthy - Dirty; defiled.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bloody; smelling of fish; raw smelling

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    raw meat; rank, strong-smelling

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    fishy (smell)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    fishy, rank; raw meat

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Raw meat is called 腥. (Analects) "When the lord bestowed raw meat, he always cooked it before offering it." | The smell of fish is called 腥 (fishy).
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