烛 · zhú
candle, taper; shine, illuminate
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
candle, taper; shine, illuminate
- Mandarin
- zhú
- Cantonese
- zuk1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 烛 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+70DB
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 10 · Unihan
- Residual
- 6
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
10 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 烛
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
燭
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhú
- kCantonese
- zuk1
- kDefinition
- candle, taper; shine, illuminate
- kTotalStrokes
- 10
- kRSUnicode
- 86.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+70DB U+71ED
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+70DB
- kTGH
- 2013:2061
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- chóng,zhú 32199.100
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhú 1508.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhú 484.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zhú(53)