香火 xiānghuǒ incense and candles Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 香火 xiānghuǒ incense and candles burning incense and candles used in temple worship or ancestral sacrifices; the practice of making offerings to gods or ancestors descendants offspring or male heirs who carry on the family lineage by continuing ancestral sacrifices; also refers to a successor of a culture or tradition temple attendant a person who looks after the incense, lamps, and general maintenance in a temple oath (literary) an alliance or oath sworn before the gods with incense and marked by the burning of incense burning incense tip the glowing tip or fire of a burning stick of incense Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Cross-References Synonym 香烟 xiāngyān烟火 yānhuǒ香灯 xiāngdēng宗祀 zōngsì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
香火 xiānghuǒ incense and candles burning incense and candles used in temple worship or ancestral sacrifices; the practice of making offerings to gods or ancestors descendants offspring or male heirs who carry on the family lineage by continuing ancestral sacrifices; also refers to a successor of a culture or tradition temple attendant a person who looks after the incense, lamps, and general maintenance in a temple oath (literary) an alliance or oath sworn before the gods with incense and marked by the burning of incense burning incense tip the glowing tip or fire of a burning stick of incense Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Cross-References Synonym 香烟 xiāngyān烟火 yānhuǒ香灯 xiāngdēng宗祀 zōngsì Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
