蜡

蜡 U+8721, 蜡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8721 ← 蜠 [U+8720] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜢 → [U+8722]

Traditional	蠟
Shinjitai (extended)	蝋
Simplified	蜡

蜡 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中戈廿日 (LITA), four-corner 5416₁, composition ⿰虫昔)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1086, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33150
• Dae Jaweon: page 1553, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2859, character 10
• Unihan data for U+8721

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜡 – see 蠟 (“wax; candle; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 蠟).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

simp. and trad.		蜡
alternative forms		䄍

蜡

1. A Zhou dynasty-era type of sacrificial rite.

simp. and trad.		蜡

蜡

1. original character of 蛆 (qū).

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜡 – see 䖳 (“jellyfish”). (This character is a variant form of 䖳).

simp. and trad.		蜡

蜡

1. a kind of insect

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B04290

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• On (unclassified): しょ (sho)、わ (wa)、じゃ (ja)、せき (seki)、しゃく (shaku)
• Kun: うじむし (ujimushi)

Kanji in this term
蜡
うじ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜡 – see the following entry.

【うじウジ】 [noun] (less common) larva, maggot Alternative spelling 蛆

(This term, 蜡, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

蜡 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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