蜡

candle / wax

former times / the past / Taiwan pr. [xi2]

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

to wax (a car, floor etc)

paraffin wax

pomade

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

beeswax

(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)

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

Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)

petroleum wax

insipid

earwax / cerumen

Wrightia tinctoria (flowering plant in Apocynaceae family, common names dyer's oleander or pala indigo)

to be embarrassed / to be put in a difficult situation

(bird species of China) spot-winged grosbeak (Mycerobas melanozanthos)

hydrocarbon wax