Chinese symbol for “batik”
蜡染
là rǎn
Traditional: 蠟染
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for batik is 蜡染 (là rǎn), defined as: batik (color printing on cloth using wax).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蜡染.
| 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) |
| 污染 | wū rǎn | (lit. and fig.) to pollute; to contaminate |
| 感染 | gǎn rǎn | to infect; infection; (fig.) to influence |
See also: Japanese symbol for “batik”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.