割香
Chinese
| cut off | fragrant; incense; (of food) savoury fragrant; incense; (of food) savoury; appetizing; sweet; scented; popular | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (割香) | 割 | 香 | |
| simp. #(割香) | 割 | 香 | |
Pronunciation
- Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): koah-hiuⁿ / koah-hioⁿ
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-hiuⁿ
- Tâi-lô: kuah-hiunn
- Phofsit Daibuun: koahhviw
- IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ hiũ⁴⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /kua(ʔ)⁵ hiũ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁴¹ hiũ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-hioⁿ
- Tâi-lô: kuah-hionn
- Phofsit Daibuun: koahhvioy
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ hiɔ̃⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
Verb
割香
- (Hokkien) to worship by burning incense at a temple
- (Mainland China Hokkien, dated) to receive incense and candles from the ancestral temple which distributes the power of the deity (done by someoe sent from a branch temple to the ancestral temple as a Chinese folk religious practice)
Synonyms
- (to worship by burning incense):