烛 (zhú): meaning and stroke order
烛 (zhú) means candle, (literary) to illuminate.
烛
- Simplified
- 烛
- Traditional
- 燭
- Pinyin
- zhú
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Stroke order of 烛
烛
- zhú candle; (literary) to illuminate
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 燭
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Meaning of 烛
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zhú
Traditional 燭
- candle
- (literary) to illuminate
Radical and structure
- 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.
Words with 烛
- 蜡烛 là zhú candle; CL:根[gen1],支[zhi1]
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).