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香
Mandarin · pinyin xiāng
Meanings
- fragrant
- sweet smelling
- aromatic
- savory or appetizing
- (to eat) with relish
- (of sleep) sound
- perfume or spice
- joss or incense stick
- Classifier: 根 gēn
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- 香
- xiāng · fragrant, sweet-smelling; incense; Kangxi radical 186
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Mandarin tones
1 · xiang1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
hoeng1
Cantonese word readings for 香. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- fragrant; fragrance
- (of food) aromatic; delicious-smelling
- (of eating) having the appearance that one really enjoys the food; (of sleep) sound
- (Internet slang) wonderful; enjoyable (in general)
- popular
- perfume
- (religion) joss stick; incense (Classifier: 支 m c mn; 炷 m c; 根 m; 叢／丛 mn; 束 m; 紮／扎 c)
- (figurative) woman
- (chiefly Wu) to kiss
- (Cantonese, euphemistic) to die
- (historical) shorthand for Hong Kong during Japanese Occupation between 1941 and 1945
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- (Hokkien, Teochew, Puxian Min) alternative form of 芳 (“fragrant”)
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