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There are 5 total results for your 烧香 search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

燒香


烧香

see styles
shāo xiāng
    shao1 xiang1
shao hsiang
 shōkō
to burn incense
To burn incense.

揀佛燒香


拣佛烧香

see styles
jiǎn fó shāo xiāng
    jian3 fo2 shao1 xiang1
chien fo shao hsiang
to choose which Buddha to burn incense to (idiom); fig. to curry favor from the right person

燒香侍者


烧香侍者

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shāo xiāng shì zhě
    shao1 xiang1 shi4 zhe3
shao hsiang shih che
 shōkō shisha
incense keeper

燒香拜佛


烧香拜佛

see styles
shāo xiāng bài fó
    shao1 xiang1 bai4 fo2
shao hsiang pai fo
to burn incense and worship Buddha

平時不燒香,臨時抱佛腳


平时不烧香,临时抱佛脚

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píng shí bù shāo xiāng , lín shí bào fó jiǎo
    ping2 shi2 bu4 shao1 xiang1 , lin2 shi2 bao4 fo2 jiao3
p`ing shih pu shao hsiang , lin shih pao fo chiao
    ping shih pu shao hsiang , lin shih pao fo chiao
lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet when danger arises (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble; doing things at the last minute; to make a hasty last-minute effort (often refers to cramming for exams)

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 5 results for "烧香" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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