Read Edit View history 香火 xiānghuǒ incense and candles Origin Definitions Defs 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)