燭

See also: 烛

Translingual

Han character

燭 (radical 86 火+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火田中戈 (FWLI), four-corner 9682₇)

1. candle, taper
2. to shine, illuminate

References

• KangXi: page 685, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19480
• Dae Jaweon: page 1098, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2241, character 2
• Unihan data for U+71ED

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Cantonese

Hanzi

燭 (simplified 烛, Jyutping zuk1, Yale juk1)

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Japanese

Kanji

燭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: しょく (shoku), そく (soku)
• Kun: ともしび (tomoshibi)

Compounds

• 蝋燭 (ろうそく, rōsoku)

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Korean

Hanja

燭 (chok) (hangeul 촉, revised chok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ok, Yale chok)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

燭 (simplified 烛, Pinyin zhú (zhu2), Wade-Giles chu²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

燭 (chúc, đuốc)

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