Kanji1 / 9
香 kanji
incense, smell, perfume
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
コウキョウ
Kun readings
かかおりかおる
Words with 香
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —香雨鳥brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)
- —常香盤incense clock (marks time with a smouldering train of incense)
- —五香粉five-spice powder
- —香盤表(play or film) cast list
- —鬱金香tulip
- —麝香腺musk gland
- —夜香木night jessamine (Cestrum nocturnum); night jasmine; lady of the night; queen of the night
- —犬香需Mosla punctulata (plant)
- —月下香tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa)
- —麝香牛muskox (Ovibos moschatus); musk ox
- —香道具incense set (e.g. burner, tray, tongs, etc.)
- —袖香炉portable incense burner (ball-shaped and carried in one's clothes)
- —聞き香smelling incense; savoring incense; distinguishing incense by smell; incense-smelling party
- —小抹香pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)
- —反魂香incense which supposedly allows the spirit of a departed loved one to be seen in the smoke
- —無香料unscented; non-scented; fragrance-free; unflavoured
- —蘇合香storax (resin); styrax; storax (Liquidambar orientalis); styrax
- —甘松香spikenard (essential oil, perfume); nard
- —源氏香Genjikō; incense-comparing game with each of the 52 patterns named after a chapter of the Tale of Genji
- —檀香梅blunt-lobed spice bush (Lindera obtusiloba)