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candle / wax
HSK 7-9
candle / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
crayon
to wax (a car, floor etc)
beeswax
waxwork; wax figure
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
batik (color printing on cloth using wax)
paraffin wax
beeswax
waxiness
wax therapy (used to treat arthritis etc)
(literary) candle
beeswax
pomade
wax paper / stencil paper
candlestick / candle holder
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
lit. tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom) / fig. tasteless; insipid
candlestick with a spike, onto which candles are impaled
hydrocarbon wax
insipid
(BDSM) wax play
Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
pewter (alloy of tin 錫|锡, lead 鉛|铅 and other metals)
variant of 臘梅|腊梅
wax museum; waxworks
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
(microbiology) Bacillus cereus
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
Crayon Shin-chan (クレヨンしんちゃん), Japanese manga and anime series popular in China
(bird species of China) Chinese grosbeak (Eophona migratoria)
to be embarrassed / to be put in a difficult situation
Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
some people have to be pushed for them to take action
(bird species of China) Japanese grosbeak (Eophona personata)
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
(bird species of China) spot-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas melanozanthos)
(bird species of China) white-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)
petroleum wax
earwax / cerumen
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
to burn the candle at both ends (idiom) / to labor under a double burden
(bird species of China) collared grosbeak (Mycerobas affinis)


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