Stroke order is not decoration — it determines how the character looks handwritten and how dictionaries index it.
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The radical is the part a paper dictionary files a kanji under, and it usually hints at meaning. 蠟 is filed under 虫 (insect) — radical number 142 of the 214 in the Kangxi system.
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Kanji are almost never met alone. These are the most common words built from this character, ordered by how often they actually appear in Japanese.
Japanese has far more kanji than syllables, so one reading is shared by many characters. These are the ones you will confuse with 蠟 — learn them together, not separately.
Useful when looking a character up by stroke count — and a common source of visual mix-ups.
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蠟 means Wax, Candle, Waxy, Glazed.
蠟 is read on'yomi (Chinese-derived) ろう; kun'yomi (native Japanese) みつろう、ろうそく.
蠟 is written with 21 strokes. The animated diagram on this page shows the correct order.
Japanese schoolchildren learn it in name kanji.
The radical of 蠟 is 虫 (insect), radical number 142 of the 214 Kangxi radicals. The radical is the component a dictionary files the character under, and it usually points at the character's meaning.
Common words written with 蠟 include 蠟燭 (ろうそく, candle); 生蠟 (キロー, crude Japan wax); 死蠟 (シロー, adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture), g).
蠟 shares a reading with 労 (ろう), 郎 (ろう), 老 (ろう), 露 (ろう), 漏 (ろう), among others. Same-sounding kanji are one of the most common sources of confusion in Japanese.
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