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joss_stick

joss stick

English

Joss sticks burning

Noun

joss stick ‎(plural joss sticks)

A kind of incense burned before a Chinese idol.

Translations

kind of incense

Chinese:

Cantonese: 香 ‎(hoeng¹)

Mandarin: 香 (zh) ‎(xiāng)
German: Räucherstäbchen (de) n

Italian: bastoncini di incenso m
Malay: colok (ms)
Tagalog: tanghas
Thai: ธูป (th) ‎(tûup)