蜡

See also 蠟

Translingual

Han character

蜡 (radical 142 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿日 (LITA), four-corner 5416₁)

1. wax
2. candle
3. waxy, glazed
4. maggot
5. as a non-simplified form sometimes used as an equivalent to U+410D (䄍), meaning imperial harvest

References

• KangXi: page 1086, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33150
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2859, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8721

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蜡 (traditional 蠟, Yale chaai3, ja3)

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Japanese

Kanji

蜡

Readings

• On: しょ (sho), わ (wa), じゃ (ja), せき (seki), しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: うじむし (ujimushi)

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Korean

Hanja

蜡 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蜡 (traditional 蠟, pinyin là (la4), zhà (zha4), Wade-Giles cha⁴)

Compounds

• 蜡白
• 蜡梅
• 蜡版
• 蜡笔
• 蜡虫
• 蜡花, 蜡花儿
• 蜡黄
• 蜡炬
• 蜡泪
• 蜡染
• 蜡人, 蜡人儿
• 蜡台
• 蜡丸, 蜡丸儿
• 蜡纸
• 蜡珠
• 蜡烛
• 蜡嘴