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

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koah-hiuⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: kuah-hiunn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koahhviw
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /kua(ʔ)³²⁻⁵³ hiũ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /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/

Verb

割香

1. (Hokkien) to worship by burning incense at a temple
2. (Mainland China Hokkien, dated) to have someone from a branch temple be sent to the ancestral temple to distribute incense incense and candles which distributes the power of the deity (a Chinese folk religion practice)

Synonyms

• (to worship by burning incense):

• 上香 (shàngxiāng)
• 插香 (chāxiāng)
• 行香 (xíngxiāng)
• 裝香／装香 (zhuāngxiāng) (chiefly Cantonese)
• 進香／进香 (jìnxiāng)