蜡

Traditional: 蠟

là

HSK 3.0 · 7–9

là · laap6 (Jyutping)

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Meaning: wax; candle; waxy, glazed; maggot; (same as 䄍) meaning imperial harvest
Radical: 虫
Strokes: 14
Components: ⿰虫昔
Cangjie: LITA
Four-corner: 5416.1

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.

Light the candle.

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He blew out the candle.

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