wax

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

insect

巤 sound component

  Sound component

liè

  

a mane

Definitions

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wax; candle; waxy, glazed

Most common words with 蠟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蜡烛

candle

wax

蜡笔

crayon

石蜡

paraffin wax

蜡像馆

waxworks

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k.rˤap (no pre-Qín exx.)

lap

wax


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.3614% of movies

2037th most common character in movies

2593rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Simplified

Unicode

U+881F


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