上香 shàng xiāng — to offer incense (at a shrine or grave)

上香
shàng xiāng

Characters: 上 · 香

Definitions

  1. to offer incense (at a shrine or grave)

More definitions

CC-CEDICT

  1. to offer incense (at a temple etc)

zdic(汉典)

  1. 进献香火进行祭祀。
  2. 死亡的委婉说法。
  3. 占便宜的隐喻说法。

Examples

  • 清明时节，后人到坟前上香祭扫。

    At Qingming, descendants offered incense at the graves to sweep them.

  • 每逢初一十五，庙里香客纷纷上香。

    On the first and fifteenth of each month, worshippers throng the temple to offer incense.