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香 Perfume Smell Incense Bottom Wheat Burns コウ、キョウ

Kanji
Onyomi コウ、キョウ
Kunyomi か、かお.り、かお.る
Nanori こ, こお, ひゃん, よし
English incense, smell, perfume
Examples 香り(かおり): aroma; fragrance; scent; smell
香水(こうすい): perfume
香辛料(こうしんりょう): spices
JLPT Level 2
Jouyou Grade S
Frequency 859
Components 禾: 2-branch tree radical (no. 115)
日: day; sun; Japan; counter for days
Number of Strokes 9
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 186
Radical Strokes 9
Radical Reading か・こう・かおり・においこう
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword incense
Koohii Story 1 If you focus the suns though a magnifying glass on to the bottom of a stalk of wheat it will start to smoulder and burn like a stick of incense. The weird thing is that it burns from the bottom upwards, hanging in the air as if my magic. Try it and see!
Koohii Story 2 When the sun burns the wheat a smell of incense remains in the air.
RTK Index 911

Tags: jlpt.n2, grades, kanjifreq751-1000, kanji_emotion.sense_sense

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