zhù
candle wick
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 主 represents the sound. Originally written as 主, a pictograph of a torch.
Evolution
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
zhù
candle wick, lamp wick; stick of incense; wick of an oil lamp; to burn (incense etc); classifier for lit incense sticks
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5424th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+70B7 |
Sources
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