三荤五厌三葷五厭 in English
- (idiom) Refers generally to meat and other animal-based foods.
Character breakdown
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
三
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
荤
These are the forms of 葷, the traditional character: 荤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 3 forms
五
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 17 forms
厌
These are the forms of 厭, the traditional character: 厌 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).