香 (hoeng1 | xiang1) : fragrant; aromatic

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香

hoeng1

xiang1

[1] fragrant; sweet smelling; aromatic; balmy [2] tasty; delicious [3] fair; beautiful [4] incense; spice; balm [5] Kangxi radical 186

Stroke count: 9

Level: 2

Radical: (#186)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

香

Don't confuse with:
杏杳查

This word has been viewed 23196 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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香港人 hoeng1 gong2 jan4 xiang1 gang3 ren2 = Hong Kong person/people

香水 hoeng1 seoi2 xiang1 shui3 = perfume

點香 dim2 hoeng1 dian3 xiang1 = to light incense

香港 hoeng1 gong2 xiang1 gang3 = Hong Kong

香腸 hoeng1 coeng4*2 xiang1 chang2 = sausage

香料 hoeng1 liu6*2 xiang1 liao4 = spice(s), condiment, flavor, perfume

香蕉 hoeng1 ziu1 xiang1 jiao1 = banana

香氣 hoeng1 hei3 xiang1 qi4 = fragrance

香煙 hoeng1 jin1 xiang1 yan1 = cigarette (general term)

香片 hoeng1 pin3*2 xiang1 pian4 = jasmine tea
See all 278 compounds (CantoDict reports 285 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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我下個星期就返香港啦。粵
I'm going back to Hong Kong next week.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131797]

我喜歡你的香水國
I like your perfume

你唔覺得香蕉味好怪? 粵
Don't you think bananas taste weird?

你煮碟餸好香喎！粵
The dish cooked by you smells so good!

當你睇到呢封信嘅時候﹐我已經離開咗香港。粵
By the time you read this letter, I will have already left Hong Kong.
[This line of dialogue is often heard in TV soap operas! :-)]

「全民皆股」係香港嘅特色。粵
Everyone buying stocks is a characteristic of Hong Kong

唔該俾壺香片。粵
Please give (me one) pot of jasmine tea.

我冇去香港粵
I didn't go to Hong Kong.

我冇去過香港粵
I have never been to Hong Kong.

香港先進過台灣粵
Hong Kong is more advanced than Taiwan.
[Lit. Hong Kong advanced surpass Taiwan]

香港先進過中國好多粵
Hong Kong is much more advanced than China.
[Lit. Hong Kong advance surpass China a lot (n.b. this is only intended to illustrate Cantonese comparatives and is not necessarily accurate!)]

食完香蕉之後，要掉咗塊蕉皮粵
Throw away the peel after you've finished the banana.
[Lit. eat-finish banana afterwards, need throw-[particle used in imperatives] [counter] banana-skin. Classifier 塊 is optional if the object (蕉皮) consists of two characters. But 塊 would be mandatory if followed by single character 皮. ]

你覺得英國同香港有啲乜嘢分別粵
What differences do you perceive between England and Hong Kong?
[Lit. you feel England with Hong Kong have [plural counter] what differences?]

喺香港,我最怕嘅就係畀蚊咬粵
In Hong Kong, I'm most scared of being bitten.
[Lit. Hong Kong, I most scared [possessive particle] exactly is by mosquitoes bite. This sentence is topicalised: the topic (Hong Kong) is introduced at the start. Also, note the phrase 最怕嘅; the 嘅 turns it into a noun phrase.]

呢個旅遊團以香港人為主。粵
This tourist group consists mainly of Hongkong people.
[以...為主 = take ... as the main thing]

香港同新加坡人都見慣高樓大厦粵
People of Hong Kong and Singapore are used to seeing high rise buildings.

香港機場與時並進
Hong Kong Airport is to improve and advance with the times.

如果你真係有興趣學好廣東話嘅話，你就一定要聽多啲香港台粵
If you want to learn Cantonese, you must listen to more Hong Kong radio.
[Lit. If you really have interest study-well Cantonese [conditional delimiter], you then must listen more Hong Kong channel.]

香港嘅英文脫離咗粵
The English spoken in Hong Kong is worse than before.
[Lit. Hong Kong [possessive particle] English broken away-already]

香港嘅財富分配好唔均勻。粵
Hong Kong has a very unequal distribution of wealth.
[There is no verb in this Cantonese sentence.]

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