The Etymological Interpretation of Xiang
Xiang, Oracle Bone Inscriptions = (delicious pasta)+(mouth, food and taste), which means the fragrance experienced when enjoying hot pasta. Will write some Oracle Bone Inscriptions to save calories on pasta. Some Oracle Bone Inscriptions wrote the word "mouth" in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyph as "sweet", emphasizing that "fragrance" is a kind of "pleasant taste". In seal script, the word "wheat" in Oracle bone inscriptions is written as "millet", which means the fragrance of millet after cooking.
Li Shu abbreviated the word "millet" in seal script as "grain", which means that "fragrance" comes from five grains; At the same time, the word "dry" in seal script is wrongly written as "day", which makes the font incomprehensible.
Original meaning of word-making: noun, the pleasant smell experienced when enjoying hot food made of wheat and millet.
Extended data
The combined word "Xiang"
I. Aroma
The smell of fragrance.
Second, cigarettes
1, incense smoke: ~ fills the air.
2, the old refers to what children sacrifice to their ancestors: cut off ~ (refers to cutting off future generations). Also called incense.
3. Paper is wrapped with tobacco rod and ingredients for smoking. Also called cigarettes, cigarettes, cigarettes.
Three. incense
Incense and candlelight used to offer sacrifices to ancestors.
Four, scholarly children 【 sh ū xi ā ng z ǐ d 】
Scholar's words come from the scholar's family and are descendants of scholars from generation to generation.
Five, sweet sweat dripping [xiāng hàn lín lí]
Simply put, the woman is sweating a lot. Call a woman's sweat sweet sweat.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiang (Chinese Characters)