Chinese symbol for “crayon”
蜡笔
là bǐ
Traditional: 蠟筆
crayon (wax type)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crayon is 蜡笔 (là bǐ), defined as: crayon (wax type).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蜡笔.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蜡烛 (蠟燭) | là zhú | candle; measure word: 根 (gēn), 支 (zhī) |
| 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) |
| 笔者 (筆者) | bǐ zhě | the author; the writer (usu. refers to oneself) |
| 笔记 (筆記) | bǐ jì | to take down (in writing); notes |
| 笔记本 (筆記本) | bǐ jì běn | notebook (stationery) (CL:本 (běn)); (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 笔记本电脑 (bǐ jì běn diàn nǎo)) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crayon”.
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.