HSK7-9
là
wax
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 昔 represents the sound. Simplified form of 蠟.
虫 Meaning component
chóng
bug, insect
昔 Sound component
xī
in the past, ancient times
Seal script
Clerical script
Regular script
蜡
wax; candle; waxy, glazed; maggot; as a non-simplified form sometimes used as an equivalent to U+410D 䄍, meaning imperial harvest
蜡烛
candle
蜡笔
crayon
石蜡
paraffin wax
蜡像馆
waxworks
Academia Sinica
Make Me a Hanzi
Unicode
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing
