燭 — Chinese character
燭
zhú
candle, taper; to illuminate, to shine
- Pinyin
- zhú
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 17
- Components
- 火 蜀
- Formation
- pictophonetic — fire; meaning component 火; sound component 蜀
- Simplified
- 烛
- Japanese
- 燭 as a kanji
燭 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2
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.
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