五荤三厌 五葷三厭
五荤三厌五葷三厭 in English
- (idiom) The “five pungent foods” are five vegetables forbidden in Buddhism, while the “three abominated foods” are three meats forbidden in Daoism.
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.
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How it used to be written
五
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 17 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
三
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 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).