zhú
candle
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 蜀 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 燭
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
candle | ||
candle light | ||
candle | ||
candlestick | ||
joss stick and candle |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tok | tsyowk | zhú | torch |
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 | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+71ED |
Shuowen | “燭，庭燎，火燭也。从火，蜀聲。” |
Sources
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