A container for burning incense, used in religious ceremonies, tea ceremonies, or for fragrance.
I placed an incense burner in front of the Buddhist altar and stood incense sticks in it.
A small incense burner was placed in the tea room, and a faint fragrance hung in the air.
Standard kanji spelling. No kana-only variant is specified, and the word is normally written with these kanji.
Compound of 香 (こう, 'incense') and 炉 (ろ, 'hearth' or 'furnace'). The reading is on'yomi for both characters.