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Speed

Stroke order

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
  • ローソク足 【ろうそくあし】 candlestick (of a candlestick chart)

Readings

Japanese names:
あじ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
la4, zha4
Korean:
rab

Spanish

Portuguese

French

4200 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1751 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
33786X Morohashi
5332 New Nelson (John Haig)
2688 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2727 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6d15.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-8 SKIP code
5211.6 Four corner code
1-47-25 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
874b Unicode hex code

17 strokes
Radical:
fire 火 (灬)
Parts:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 絵ろうそく 【エロウソク】 candle decorated with coloured pictures (esp. of flowers or birds)
  • 裸蝋燭 【ハダカロウソク】 naked candle, uncovered candle, unshaded candle
  • 燭 【ショク】 light, lamp, obsolete unit of luminous intensity (approx. 1.0067 candela)
  • 燭台 【ショクダイ】 candlestick, candlestand
  • 華燭 【カショク】 bright light, wedding ceremony
  • 手燭 【テショク】 portable candlestick

Kun reading compounds

  • 灯火 【ともしび】 light, lamp, torch

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhu2
Korean:
chog

Spanish

Portuguese

French

2811 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1391 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1008 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
19480 Morohashi
3496 New Nelson (John Haig)
2539 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2976 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4d13.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-13 SKIP code
9682.7 Four corner code
1-31-04 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
71ed Unicode hex code

7 strokes (also 8)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
wick
On:
シン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2202 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 芯 【シン】 wick, marrow, staple (for stapler), (pencil) lead, stuffing, pith, core, heart, centre, center, pistil (of a flower), stamen
  • 芯が強い 【シンガツヨイ】 mentally strong, strong-willed
  • 排水芯 【ハイスイシン】 toilet drain outlet
  • 灯心 【トウシン】 (lamp) wick

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xin1, xin4
Korean:
sim

Spanish

  • interior
  • entrañas (cuerpo
  • cosa)

Portuguese

French

3905 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2084 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2744 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1898 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
30732X Morohashi
2423 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4976 New Nelson (John Haig)
2368 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
647 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-4 SKIP code
2-4-4 SKIP code
4433.0 Four corner code
1-31-36 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
82af Unicode hex code