蜡烛 (làzhú) means 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
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
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
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Questions about 蜡烛
How is 蜡烛 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 蜡烛 (làzhú, "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.
Is 蜡烛 an HSK word?
Yes — 蜡烛 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 蜡烛?
The dictionary page for 蜡烛 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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