燭

See also: 烛

Translingual

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		燭
simp.		烛*

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蜀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
襡	*toːʔ, *toːɡs, *doːʔ, *doːɡ, *djoɡ
噣	*toːɡs, *tuɡs, *rtoːɡ, *tjoɡ
斣	*toːɡs
歜	*sdoːmʔ, *tʰjoɡ
斀	*rtoːɡ
孎	*rtoːɡ, *toɡ
濁	*rdoːɡ
鐲	*rdoːɡ, *zroːɡ, *djoɡ
鸀	*rdoːɡ, *tjoɡ
擉	*sʰroːɡ
獨	*doːɡ
髑	*doːɡ
韣	*doːɡ, *tjoɡ, *djoɡ
斸	*toɡ
钃	*toɡ
欘	*toɡ
躅	*doɡ
蠋	*doɡ, *tjoɡ
燭	*tjoɡ
囑	*tjoɡ
矚	*tjoɡ
屬	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
属	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
蠾	*tjoɡ, *djoɡ
觸	*tʰjoɡ
臅	*tʰjoɡ
觕	*sʰlaː, *zlaːʔ, *tʰjoɡ
蜀	*djoɡ

Etymology

Compare Tibetan དུགས་པ (dugs pa, “to make warm, to warm, to light”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 燭

1. candle; taper
2. to shine; to illuminate
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) candlepower (unit)

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Japanese

Kanji

燭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: そく (soku)
• Kan-on: しょく (shoku)
• Kun: ともしび (tomoshibi, 燭)

Compounds

• 蝋燭(ろうそく) (rōsoku): candle

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Korean

Hanja

燭 • (chok) (hangeul 촉)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 燭 (đuốc, chúc)

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