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
- —香をたくto cense; to burn incense
- —犬香じゅMosla punctulata (plant)
- —麝香猫科Viverridae (family of civets)
- —木香バラbanksia rose (Rosa banksiae)
- —木香ばらbanksia rose (Rosa banksiae)
- —蚊とり線香mosquito coil; anti-mosquito incense
- —立ち麝香草common thyme (Thymus vulgaris); garden thyme
- —木立百里香thyme
- —りゅうぜん香ambergris
- —線香を上げるto offer incense (for a departed person); to light an incense stick
- —沈香も焚かず屁もひらずhaving few faults as well as few virtues; not burning agarwood (incense); not passing wind