Candle in Chinese (Mandarin): 蜡烛 (làzhú)
蜡烛
làzhú
candle
- Simplified
- 蜡烛
- Traditional
- 蠟燭
- Pinyin
- làzhú
- Typed as
- lazhu
Use it in a sentence
生日蛋糕上有蜡烛。
生日蛋糕上有蠟燭。
There are candles on the birthday cake.
The characters in 蜡烛
蜡 / 蠟
Wax. 虫 (bug) is on the left, because wax came from bees.
14 strokes
烛 / 燭
Candle, torch. 火 (fire) is on the left.
10 strokes
蜡烛 is a "wax torch". Blowing out the candles is 吹蜡烛 (chuī làzhú).
More examples with 蜡烛
我吹灭了蜡烛。
我吹滅了蠟燭。
Wǒ chuī miè le làzhú.
I blew out the candles.
蜡烛很亮。
蠟燭很亮。
Làzhú hěn liàng.
The candle is bright.
How to write 蜡烛 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
蜡 14 strokes
烛 10 strokes
In Traditional characters:
蠟 21 strokes
燭 17 strokes
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