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蜡烛

là zhú

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 蠟燭 Measure word 根、支

蜡烛 (là zhú) means "candle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 蜡烛 means

1. candle

The characters in 蜡烛

• 蜡làcandle; wax
• 烛zhúcandle; (literary) to illuminate

Example sentences

• 把蜡烛点燃。
  Bǎ làzhú diǎnrán.
  Light the candle.
• 肯点燃了蜡烛。
  Kěn diǎnrán le làzhú.
  Ken lighted the candles.
• 蜡烛自然熄灭。
  Làzhú zìrán xīmiè.
  The candle went out by itself.
• 蜡烛自己灭了。
  The candle went out by itself.
• 他吹灭了蜡烛。
  He blew out the candle.
• 你们有蜡烛吗？
  Do you have any candles?

Words starting with 蜡烛

• 蜡烛两头烧là zhú liǎng tóu shāoto burn the candle at both ends (idiom); to labor under a double burden
• 蜡烛不点不亮là zhú bù diǎn bù liàngsome people have to be pushed for them to take action

Words containing 蜡烛

• 倒吊蜡烛dào diào là zhúWrightia tinctoria…

Where 蜡烛 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Household, Kitchen & Daily Life (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read là zhú correctly.
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