燭
zhú

candle

烛 (燭) zhú
candle
a cylinder or block of wax or tallow with a central wick which is lit to produce light
illuminate
to shine light upon or to light up (literary context)

Cross-References

Has old variant

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
Simplified
烛
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+71ED

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