Chinese symbol for “patchouli”
广藿香
guǎng huò xiāng
Traditional: 廣藿香
(botany) patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for patchouli is 广藿香 (guǎng huò xiāng), defined as: (botany) patchouli (Pogostemon cablin).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 广藿香.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 广告 (廣告) | guǎng gào | to advertise; a commercial |
| 广场 (廣場) | guǎng chǎng | public square; plaza |
| 广泛 (廣泛) | guǎng fàn | wide; broad; extensive; widespread |
| 推广 (推廣) | tuī guǎng | to extend; to spread |
| 广播 (廣播) | guǎng bō | broadcast; 个 (gè) |
| 广大 (廣大) | guǎng dà | (of an area) vast or extensive; large-scale |
| 藿香 | huò xiāng | wrinkled giant hyssop; Agastache rugosa (botany) |
| 淫羊藿 | yín yáng huò | Epimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac; also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to |
| 香蕉 | xiāng jiāo | banana; measure word: 根 (gēn), 把 (bǎ) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “patchouli”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.