燒香

See also: 烧香

Chinese

to burn; to cook; to stew
to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; fever
 
fragrant; incense; (of food) savoury
fragrant; incense; (of food) savoury; appetizing; sweet; scented; popular
 
trad. (燒香)
simp. (烧香)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • siê1 hiên1 - Chaozhou;
  • sio1 hion1 - Jieyang.
  • Wu
    • (Northern: Shanghai)
      • Wugniu: 1sau-shian
      • MiniDict: sau shian
      • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 1sau-xian
      • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɔ⁵⁵ ɕiã²¹/
    • (Northern: Suzhou)
      • Wugniu: 1sau-shian1
      • MiniDict: sau shian
      • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /sæ⁴⁴ ɕiã/

Verb

燒⫽香 (verb-object)

  1. (religion) to burn incense (before an altar of an idol or an ancestor)
  2. (figurative) to bribe

Synonyms

  • (to burn incense):

Derived terms

References

  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “1521 烧香(动宾)”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 440.