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Kanji Detail for 薰 - "fragrant, perfume, influence"
薰
- Meaning
薰 means "fragrant, perfume, influence."
Fragrant - Having a pleasant smell; aromatic and sweet.
Perfume - A pleasant scent; a delightful aroma.
Influence - To affect others positively; to inspire for good.
Incense - To burn for fragrance; to create aromatic smoke.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
a medicinal herb; to cauterize
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
a medicinal herb; to cauterize
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
fragrance; warm; to educate; variant of 熏[xun1]; to smoke; to fumigate
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a medicinal herb; to cauterize
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A fragrant herb name. Also called 蕙草 (sweet grass). Leaves are elliptical and opposite. Red flowers and black fruit. Ancient people wore it to ward off illness. Commonly called 佩蘭 (wearing orchid). That produced in Lingling County, Hunan is most famous. Therefore also called 零陵香 (Lingling fragrance). | Gentle and warm. Such as Shun's qin song "The south wind is gentle." This is the meaning. | To burn or scorch. Such as saying 勢利薰心 (scorched by power and profit). Meaning being zealous for profit like fire scorching. Also 薰籠 (incense burner) is abbreviated as 薰. Such as 宮薰 (palace incense burner).
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