烛
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Codepoint: U+70DB (28891) Unified
Base character
Variants
- Variant: 曯 (U+66EF) (has its own definition text) (moe_taiwan_moe)
- Variant: 爥 (U+7225) (has its own definition text) (moe_taiwan_moe)
- Semantic variant: 燭 (U+71ED) (Unihan_Variants)
Definitions
Unihan definition
candle, taper; shine, illuminate
康熙字典
部: 火部6畫 共10畫
【集韻】持中切，音蟲。旱灼也。本作爞。或省。通作蟲。
【字彙】俗作燭字。非。<hr>（燭）
【唐韻】之欲切【集韻】【韻會】朱欲切，𠀤音囑。
【說文】庭燎火燭也。
【廣韻】燈燭。
【禮·曲禮】燭至起。
【周禮·秋官·司烜氏】以共祭祀之明齍明燭。
又【玉篇】照也。
【前漢·武帝紀】日月所燭，莫不率𠈷。
又【爾雅·釋天】四時和謂之玉燭。【註】道光照也。
【梁書·𥳑文帝紀】太平玉燭，爾乃議之。
又【楚辭·天問】日出不到燭龍何燿。
又星名。
【史記·天官書】燭星，狀如太白，其出也不行，見則滅，如星非星，如雲非雲，名曰歸邪。歸邪出，必有歸國者。漢元鳳四年，燭星見奎婁閒。
又南天燭，藥名。赤者名文燭。木而似草。故又名南燭草。
又石燭，一名水肥，一名石脂，一名石液。
又姓。
【左傳·僖二十八年】若使燭之武見秦君，師必退。
又去聲。
【前漢·武帝紀】見光集於雲壇，一夜三燭。【註】服虔曰：燭，音炷。師古讀如字。
又【唐韻正】音朱。
【張衡·東京賦】德寓天覆，輝烈光燭，狹三王之趢趗，軼五帝之長驅。
又【唐韻正】後魏渴燭渾民，亦作可足渾民，又作可朱渾民。<hr>（燭）考證：〔
【前漢·武帝紀】見光集於雲檀，一夜三燭。〕 謹照原文雲檀改雲壇。
Variant-specific definitions (2)
曯 (U+66EF)
康熙字典
【韻會】朱欲切，音燭。照也。
【沈亞之·上冢宰書】戎鏡包陽，當日而曯之，則能延燧興火。或作爥。通作燭。
爥 (U+7225)
CC-CEDICT
- old variant of 燭|烛[zhu2]
Unihan definition
simmer, cook over slow fire
康熙字典
【韻會】朱欲切，音囑。本作曯。照也。一通作燭。
【班固·東都賦】散皇明以爥幽。
Properties
Strokes & radicals
- 康熙字典 Kangxi Radicals & Strokes: 火部 + 6 strokes (Unihan_IRGSources)
- Total Strokes: 10 (Unihan_IRGSources)
Pronunciation
Mandarin Chinese 1
Standard Mandarin 1
- Mandarin: zhú (Unihan_Readings)
Yue Chinese 1
Cantonese 1
- Cantonese: zuk1 (Unihan_Readings)
Japonic 1
Japanese 1
- Japanese: チュウ ジュ (Unihan_Readings)
Austroasiatic 1
Vietnamese 1
- Vietnamese: chúc (Unihan_Readings)
Input
-
倉頡輸入法 Cāngjié input method:
FLMI
(火中一戈)
(Unihan_DictionaryLikeData)
- 角號碼檢字法 Four-corner input method: 9583 (Unihan_DictionaryLikeData)
- Mainland Telegraph: 3608 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
Dictionary indices
- Cihai T: 847.203 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Dae Jaweon: 1079.110 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Fenn Index: 94.05 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Han Yu: 32199.100 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- IRGDae Jaweon: 1079.110 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- IRGHanyu Da Zidian: 32199.100 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- IRG 康熙 Kāngxī: 0670.210 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- 康熙 Kāngxī: 0670.210 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Lau: 1601 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Matthews: 1385 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Morohashi: 19017 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
- Phonetic class: 1264* (Unihan_DictionaryLikeData)
- SMSZD2003Index: 396.11 (Unihan_DictionaryIndices)
Encodings & mappings
- CCCII: 274A30 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- CNS1986: E-3229 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- CNS1992: 3-3229 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- EACC: 274A30 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- GB0: 5482 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- Moji Joho: MJ016375 (Unihan_DictionaryLikeData)
- TGH: 2013:2061 (Unihan_OtherMappings)
- Unihan Core2020: G (Unihan_DictionaryLikeData)
Ideographic Research Group (IRG) sources
- IICore: AG (Unihan_IRGSources)
- IRG_GSource: G0-5672 (Unihan_IRGSources)
- IRG_JSource: JMJ-016375 (Unihan_IRGSources)
- IRG_KPSource: KP1-5513 (Unihan_IRGSources)
- IRG_TSource: T3-3229 (Unihan_IRGSources)
- IRG_VSource: V1-5E24 (Unihan_IRGSources)