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

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

(Hokkien) to worship by burning incense at a temple
(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)

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