five spice powder

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   Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon

   Broaderspice

Questions about five spice powder

What does five spice powder mean?

five spice powder means "Chinese seasoning made by grinding star anise and fennel and pepper and cloves and cinnamon".

Is five spice powder a common word?

five spice powder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.