Kanji
蠟
蠟 kanji
wax, candle, waxy, glazed
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- Strokes
- 21
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
ロウ
Kun readings
みつろうろうそく
Variant forms
蝋Words with 蠟
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —魚蠟wax made from fish oil; marine wax esters
- —蠟wax
- —蠟燭candle
- —屍蠟adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
- —死蠟adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
- —石蠟paraffin
- —封蠟sealing wax
- —木蠟vegetable wax; Japan wax; sumac wax
- —蠟梅wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
- —蠟石agalmatolite; pagodite; figure stone
- —蠟染batik
- —蠟紙wax paper
- —白蠟white wax
- —生蠟crude Japan wax
- —蜜蠟beeswax
- —蜂蠟beeswax
- —鯨蠟spermaceti (waxy substance found in the head cavities of sperm whales)
- —蠟膜cere (skin at the base of a bird's beak)
- —藍蠟indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.
- —蠟管phonograph wax cylinder; phonograph cylinder