香
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fragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic; savory or appetizing; (to eat) with relish; (of sleep) sound; perfume or spice; joss or incense stick; CL:根[gen1]
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- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 香 itself
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 香
- Common rank
- #246
- Unicode
- U+9999
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Words with 香
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 香山区 | Hsiangshan, a district of Hsinchu 新竹市[Xin1 zhu2 Shi4], Taiwan | |
| 国色天香 | national grace, divine fragrance (idiom); an outstanding beauty | |
| 天香国色 | divine fragrance, national grace (idiom); an outstanding beauty | |
| 香格里拉市 | Shangri-La, a county-level city in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪慶藏族自治州|迪庆藏族自治州[Di… | |
| 香巴拉 | Shambhala, mythical place (Buddhism, Hinduism) | |
| 香河县 | Xianghe, a county in Langfang City 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 香格里拉 | Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a par… | |
| 香水 | perfume; cologne | |
| 头香 | the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during f… | |
| 香港中文大学 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| 上香 | to offer incense (at a temple etc) | |
| 花香 | fragrance of flowers | |
| 香花 | fragrant flower; fig. beneficial (of artworks etc) | |
| 香会 | a company of pilgrims | |
| 香港文化中心 | Hong Kong Cultural Center | |
| 香气 | fragrance; aroma; incense | |
| 体香 | pleasant body scent | |
| 香子兰 | vanilla; Vanilla planifolia | |
| 香港理工大学 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
| 鸟语花香 | lit. birdsong and fragrant flowers (idiom); fig. the intoxication of a beautiful spring da… |