三荤五厌 三葷五厭

三荤五厌三葷五厭 in English

sān hūn wǔ yàn
(idiom) Refers generally to meat and other animal-based foods.

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 三 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 三 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 五 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 五 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

These are the forms of 葷, the traditional character: 荤 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

These are the forms of 厭, the traditional character: 厌 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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