蜡 (là) means Wax (candle). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他用火柴点着了 蜡 烛。
Tā yòng huǒchái diǎn zháo le làzhú.
He lit the candle with a match.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 火柴
他给女儿吹了生日 蜡 烛。
Tā gěi nǚ'ér chuī le shēngrì làzhú.
He blew out the birthday candles for his daughter.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吹
蜡 烛的火焰在风中摇晃。
Làzhú de huǒyàn zài fēng zhōng yáohuàng.
The candle flame wavered in the wind.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 火焰
停电了，我们点起了 蜡 烛。
Tíngdiàn le, wǒmen diǎn qǐ le làzhú.
The power went out, so we lit candles.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 蜡烛
生日蛋糕上插着六根 蜡 烛。
Shēngrì dàngāo shang chāzhe liù gēn làzhú.
Six candles are stuck in the birthday cake.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 蜡烛
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Words that contain 蜡
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Questions about 蜡
How is 蜡 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 蜡 (là, "Wax (candle)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 蜡 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 蜡 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 蜡?
The dictionary page for 蜡 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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