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蝋 kanji
wax
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
On readings
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Kun readings
みつろうろうそく
Variant forms
蠟Words with 蝋
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2蝋燭Popularcandle
- —蝋wax
- —屍蝋adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
- —石蝋paraffin
- —封蝋sealing wax
- —木蝋vegetable wax; Japan wax; sumac wax
- —蝋梅wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
- —蝋石agalmatolite; pagodite; figure stone
- —蝋紙wax paper
- —白蝋white wax
- —生蝋crude Japan wax
- —蜜蝋beeswax
- —鯨蝋spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
- —蝋膜cere (skin at the base of a bird's beak)
- —藍蝋indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.
- —黄蝋yellow beeswax
- —蝋管phonograph wax cylinder; phonograph cylinder
- —櫨蝋vegetable wax; Japan wax; sumac wax
- —蝋人形wax figure; wax doll; wax model; waxwork
- —蝋染めbatik