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燭

zhú

candle, taper; to shine, illuminate

Strokes
17
Radical
火
HSK
—
Tone
2

Simplified form: 烛

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 烛, the simplified form of 燭. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 我很喜欢烛光。

    Wǒ hěn xǐ huan zhú guāng

    I like candlelight.

  • 你记得自己该买蜡烛吗？

    Nǐ jì de zì jǐ gāi mǎi là zhú ma

    Did you remember that you were supposed to buy candles?

  • 洗手台上有一个红色的蜡烛。

    Xǐ shǒu tái shàng yǒu yī gè hóng sè de là zhú

    There's a red candle on top of the bathroom sink.

  • 蜡烛自己灭了。

    Là zhú zì jǐ miè le

    The candle went out by itself.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 烛