candle / wax

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) spent all day waxing (蜡) the floor of the ashram's bathroom (a4). Even when the mosquito (虫) drops his milkshake (昔) on the floor it just drops off and doesn't wet the floor.

蠟 character breakdown

old variant of 鬣[lie4]
variant of 蟲|虫[chong2]
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL:條|条[tiao2],隻|只[zhi1] / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic

= + : Chantal Chicken and a mosquito are taking part in a dart contest just inside the engine's kitchen. The dart board is hanging in the middle of the entrance, and Chantal and the mosquito are standing to the sides. Over each of them a large fake nose is hovering: the loser will be covered in grey goose as punishment.

Characters with 蠟 as component

蠟 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 蠟

to wax (a car, floor etc)
lit. tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom) / fig. tasteless; insipid
tastes as if one is chewing wax (idiom) / tasteless / insipid
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
hydrocarbon wax
(bird species of China) white-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas carnipes)
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
white wax from Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
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
Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)
earwax / cerumen
to be embarrassed / to be put in a difficult situation
(bird species of China) spot-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas melanozanthos)

Sentences with 蠟

蠟 currently does not appear in any sentence.