烧香拜佛 (燒香拜佛)
shāo xiāng bài Fó
Pinyin
Definition
烧香拜佛 (燒香拜佛)
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- to burn incense and worship Buddha
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to worship
- 2 adoration
- 1 to pay respect
- 2 worship
- 3 visit
- 4 salute
- 1 to pay a New Year call
- 2 to wish sb a Happy New Year
- 1 fragrant
- 2 sweet smelling
- 3 aromatic
- 4 savory or appetizing
- 5 (to eat) with relish
- 6 (of sleep) sound
- 7 perfume or spice
- 8 joss or incense stick
- 9 classifier: 根 gēn
- 1 Hong Kong
Idioms (20)
不看僧面看佛面
- 1 lit. not for the monk's sake but for the Buddha's sake (idiom)
- 2 fig. (to do sth for sb) out of deference to sb else
佛口蛇心
- 1 words of a Buddha, heart of a snake (idiom); two-faced
- 2 malicious and duplicitous
借花献佛
- 1 lit. presenting the Buddha with borrowed flowers (idiom); fig. to win favor or influence using sb else's property
- 2 plagiarism
偷香窃玉
- 1 lit. stolen scent, pilfered jade (idiom); philandering
- 2 secret illicit sex
口齿生香
- 1 eloquence that generates perfume (idiom); profound and significant text