zhú
candle
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 虫 represents the sound. Simplified form of 燭.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 烛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
candle | ||
candle light | ||
candle | ||
candlestick | ||
joss stick and candle |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.7436% of movies
2197th most common character in movies
2537th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+70DB |
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