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


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