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tuần hương

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incense stick time
Noun
incense stick time

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Meaning
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Sense 1 Noun
incense stick time

A tuần hương refers to the period of time that it takes for a single incense stick to burn completely.

vi Anh ấy ngồi thiền tĩnh lặng trong khoảng một tuần hương.

en He meditated quietly for about the period of time it takes an incense stick to burn.

Parts
tuần / hương / 巡香
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Components

Components

tuần hương
Chinese characters Estimated from syllable mapping
Representative candidate
巡香
Candidates by syllable
tuần 巡 hương 香
Bold marks a representative candidate assembled from per-syllable character mappings. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. It is not necessarily a source-aligned spelling for the whole word.
Similar
tuân huống
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Easily confused

Same spelling, different tone
Use
cuối tuần / tuần lễ / tuần tra / tuần tiễu …
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tuần (week) — words using
hương (fragrance) — words using
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