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candle / CL: ,
HSK 7-9
bridal room and ornamented candles / wedding festivities (idiom)
joss stick and candle
lit. candle in the wind (idiom) / fig. (of sb's life) feeble / hanging on a thread
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *燭* | 燭* | *燭
candle / (literary) to illuminate
red candle (used during birthdays and other celebrations)
wedding candles; a pair of large, red, ornately decorated candles placed in the bridal chamber during a traditional Chinese wedding night, symbolizing the union of the couple / (botany) anthurium
fire and candles / household things that burn
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
by bright candlelight
variant of 炳燭|炳烛


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