蜡 — Chinese character
蜡
là
candle, wax; maggot
- Pinyin
- là
- Radical
- 142 ⾍ (Insect)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 虫 昔
- Formation
- pictophonetic — insect; meaning component 虫; sound component 昔
- Traditional
- 蠟
Common words with 蜡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蜡烛 (蠟燭) | là zhú | candle; measure word: 根 (gēn), 支 (zhī) |
| 蜡笔 (蠟筆) | là bǐ | crayon (wax type) |
| 蜡像馆 (蠟像館) | là xiàng guǎn | wax museum; waxworks |
| 蜡像 (蠟像) | là xiàng | waxwork; wax figure |
| 石蜡 (石蠟) | shí là | paraffin wax |
| 打蜡 (打蠟) | dǎ là | to wax (a car, floor etc) |
| 蜂蜡 (蜂蠟) | fēng là | beeswax |
| 白蜡 (白蠟) | bái là | white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela) |
| 蜜蜡 (蜜蠟) | mì là | beeswax |
| 蜡质 (蠟質) | là zhì | waxiness |
| 蜡染 (蠟染) | là rǎn | batik (color printing on cloth using wax) |
| 白蜡树 (白蠟樹) | bái là shù | Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM |
English words written with 蜡
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.