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  *香* | 香* | *香
fragrant / sweet smelling / aromatic / savory or appetizing / (to eat) with relish / (of sleep) sound / perfume or spice / joss or incense stick / CL:
HSK 3
banana / CL: , 個|个,
HSK 3
chewing gum
HSK 7-9
smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line / cigarette (CL:,條|条,,,)
HSK 7-9
sausage / CL:
HSK 5
(loanword) champagne / CL: ,
Sichuan-style hotpot skewers
all-spice (Pimenta dioica) / Jamaican pepper
fragrance of flowers
chive
citron (Citrus medica) / grapefruit
aromatherapy
(loanword) champagne
lilac (Syringa spp) / clove (Syzygium aromaticum)
sesame oil / perfumed oil
HSK 7-9
perfumed soap / toilet soap / CL: 塊|块
tuberose (Agave amica) / night-blooming jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum) (aka 夜香木)
literary reputation
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
lemongrass (Cymbopogon)
lit. to never burn incense when all's well, but clutch Buddha's feet in a crisis (proverb) / fig. to neglect preparation until the last moment, then act in panic
fragrant wine fears no dark alley (idiom) / quality goods need no advertising
fragrance / bouquet / sweet smell / CL:
HSK 7-9
precious horses and magnificent carriage (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle / ostentatious display of luxury
to burn incense and worship Buddha
spice / flavoring / condiment / perfume
HSK 7-9
to offer incense (at a temple etc)
orange jasmine (Murraya paniculata) / "chicken butt", popular Taiwan snack on a stick, made of marinated "white cut chicken" butt
smoked bean curd
a censer (for burning incense) / incense burner / thurible
Chinese anise / star anise / Fructus Anisi Stellati
Champs Élysées
(slang) would be better (abbr. for 這錢買排骨它不香嗎|这钱买排骨它不香吗 for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?)
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Hong Kong Monetary Authority
tulip
Honolulu, capital of Hawaii / also transliterated as 火奴魯魯|火奴鲁鲁
five-spice powder
pancake
perfume / cologne
HSK 7-9
Hong Kong Basic Law (in effect since the resumption of Chinese sovereignty in 1997)
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
five spice seasoned / incorporating the five basic flavors of Chinese cooking (sweet, sour, bitter, savory, salty)
incense stick
interesting and appealing (of old locations, objects etc)
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
Chinese anise / star anise
fennel / fennel seed
to burn incense
sweet scent / fragrant odor
grapefruit
jasmine tea / scented tea
popular / in demand / well regarded
fragrant and sweet / sound (sleep)
spearmint
(of a flower) vividly colorful and fragrant / (of a woman) captivating; charming / (of writing or a painting etc) lifelike; vivid
Hong Kong person or people
frankincense
shiitake (Lentinus edodes), an edible mushroom
Tower of Buddhist Incense in the Summer Palace 頤和園|颐和园, Beijing
fragrance / aroma / incense
to burn incense in prayer to a God
Hsiangshan, a district of Hsinchu 新竹市, Taiwan
Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (abbr. to )
bubble-gum
exotic odors assail the nostrils (idiom)
balsam / face cream
donations to a temple
aromatic herb / vanilla / alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei / (fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)
fragrant / aromatic / fragrance / aroma
a small table to accommodate an incense burner
eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text
costus root (medicinal herb) / aucklandia / Saussurea costus / Dolomiaea souliei
(of a fragrance) to waft about / (fig.) (of foods) to become popular in other places as well
lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering / secret illicit sex
geraniol (chemistry)
(botany) patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)
Chinese eaglewood; agarwood tree; lignum aloes (Aquilaria agallocha)
winter daphne
caraway
orange (tree and fruit)
shampoo (loanword) / see 洗髮皂|洗发皂
shiitake (Lentinus edodes), an edible mushroom
fragrant / delicious
aromatherapy (alternative medicine)
piña colada
wrinkled giant hyssop / Agastache rugosa (botany)
Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions
savory (herb)
a woman's rooms
sperm whale; cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus)
(cuisine) basil-flavored (abbr. for 九層塔香|九层塔香) / cone-shaped incense stick
passion fruit
to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex (idiom)
to go on a pilgrimage and offer incense (idiom)
alluring / erotic / romantic
benzene ring (chemistry) / aromatic ring
mosquito-repellent incense or coil
the first stick of incense placed in the censer (believed to bring good luck esp. during festivities) / (slang) (Tw) the first reply to a blog post etc
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel

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