烛
zhú HSK7

candle

烛 燭 zhú
candle noun
(bound form) candle; torch
to illuminate
(literary) to illuminate; to light up; to shine on
to see clearly
(literary) to see into; to perceive; to understand clearly
watt; candela
a unit of luminous intensity (candela); (informal/dated) a unit of light bulb power equivalent to a watt
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,537th most common 18.5 per million
Movie subtitles
2,197th most common 14.2 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.570 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
2.65 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
燭
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+70DB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)