蠟 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

là HSK7

wax

蜡 (蠟) là

candle noun: a light source consisting of a wick embedded in wax; often used as a shortened form of 蜡烛 làzhú; 停电了，快去点支蜡。

tíngdiàn le, kuài qù diǎn zhī là.

The power is out; go light a candle.

wax noun: a solid substance such as beeswax or paraffin, used for coating, polishing, or as a raw material; 这种地板需要定期打蜡。

zhè zhǒng dìbǎn xūyào dìngqī dǎ là.

This kind of floor needs to be waxed regularly.

Cross-References

Has old variant

䗶 là

Frequency

Character

Written text: 2,593rd most common 16.8 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,037th most common 18.3 per million appears in 8% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 5.31 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text: 3.55 per million

Details

HSK 3.0: Level 7
Simplified: 蜡
Strokes: 21
Unicode: U+881F

Sources

Definitions: CC-CEDICT
Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)