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Mythic Mandarin

蜡烛 (là zhú): meaning and stroke order

蜡烛 (là zhú) means candle, CL:根,支.

蜡烛

Simplified
蜡烛
Traditional
蠟燭
Pinyin
là zhú

Stroke order of 蜡烛

蜡

  • là candle; wax
  • 14 strokes
  • Traditional form: 蠟

Stroke by stroke

烛

  • zhú candle; (literary) to illuminate
  • 10 strokes
  • Traditional form: 燭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 蜡烛

  1. là zhú Traditional 蠟燭
    • candle
    • CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]

Radicals of the characters

蜡
Radical 虫 (Kangxi radical 142) · 14 strokes · 虫 on the left, 昔 on the right
烛
Radical 火 (Kangxi radical 86) · 10 strokes · 火 on the left, 虫 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

蜡烛 in our stories

Preview version — Chinese review in progress.

  • 顾青从小就喜欢画画，他点上蜡烛，照着前一半的样子，一直画到天亮。

    Gù Qīng cóngxiǎo jiù xǐhuan huàhuà tā diǎn shàng làzhú zhàozhe qián yí bàn de yàngzi yìzhí huà dào tiān liàng

    Gu Qing had loved painting since childhood. He lit a candle and, following the style of the first half, painted until dawn.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 蜡烛

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).