Jisho

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21 strokes
Radical:
insect
Parts:
Variants:

On reading compounds

  • 蝋 【ロウ】 wax
  • 蝋燭 【ロウソク】 candle
  • 藍蝋 【アイロウ】 indigo wax, cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.
  • 鯨蝋 【ゲイロウ】 spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)

Kun reading compounds

  • 蝋燭 【ろうそく】 candle
  • ろうそく立て 【ろうそくたて】 candle holder

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
la4, zha4
Korean:
rab

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1818 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1304 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
33786 Morohashi
5403 New Nelson (John Haig)
1-6-15 SKIP code
1-59-88 JIS X 0212-1990 kuten code
1-91-71 JIS X 0213-2000 kuten code
881f Unicode hex code