Kanji Detail for 葷 - "pungent vegetable, rank, tribe"

葷

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
葷 means "pungent vegetable, rank, tribe."
1. Pungent vegetable - A vegetable with a strong smell.
2. Rank - Having a raw, fishy smell.
3. Tribe - Name of an ancient northern ethnic group in China.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

garlic

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

meat diet; strong smelling

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc); non-vegetarian food (meat, fish etc); vulgar; obscene

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

non-vegetarian food; garlic; a foul smell

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

Pungent foods. Scallions, garlic, and the other five pungent vegetables are all called 葷. Today commonly meat food is called 葷. Vegetable food is called 素. Read as 昏.
Onyomi

gun(ぐん)

kun(くん)
Kunyomi

namagusa
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
pungent vegetable strong smell rank having raw fishy tribe name northern ethnic group china