香を聞く
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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香 | 聞 |
Grade: 4 | Grade: 2 |
Etymology edit
Japanese reading of Chinese 聞香/闻香.
Phrase edit
- to smell incense
- 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho, page 132:
- Cǒ. カゥ (香) 沈香. Cǒuo taqu. (香を炷く) 芳香を放ち薫るように沈香を焚く. Cǒuo tomuru. (香をとむる) 沈香を薫らせる, または, 着物に薫りをつける. Cǒuo qiqu. (香を聞く) 香炉で焚く沈香や加羅などの香を嗅いで, その香の品質を見る, すなわち, 鑑定する.
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References edit
- Doi, Tadao (1603–1604) Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.