| Chinese Text Project |
| 蜡 U+8721 |  Seal script | 䄍 Semantic variant Specialized semantic variant | 蜡 Traditional character Simplified character | 蠟 Semantic variant Specialized semantic variant Traditional character |
| Radical: | 虫+ 8 strokes = 14 strokes total. |
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| References: | Guangyun: p.362#11 p.422#34 Kangxi: p.1086#07 Cihai: p.1192r2c02 GSR: 798.y Hanyu: v4,p2859#10 |
| Composition: | Left: 虫, right: 昔. |
| Mandarin: | là zhà chà qù jí ㄌㄚˋ ㄓㄚˋ ㄔㄚˋ ㄑㄩˋ ㄐㄧˊ |
| Cantonese: | caa3 caai3 zaa3 |
| Shuowen: | 《虫部》蜡：蠅䏣也。《周禮》：「蜡氏掌除骴。」从虫昔聲。 |
| Guangyun: | 《廣韻·去聲·御·覰》蜡：周禮有蜡氏。又音乍。 《廣韻·去聲·禡·乍》䄍：年終祭名或作蜡廣雅曰夏曰淸祀殷曰嘉平周曰大䄍秦曰臘也。 《廣韻·去聲·禡·乍》蜡：上同。 |
| Kangxi: | 《康熙字典·虫部·八》蜡：《集韻》《正韻》𠀤七慮切，音覻。《說文》蠅胆也。《周禮·秋官·蜡氏註》蜡，骨肉腐臭，蠅蟲所蜡也。《月令》曰：掩骼埋骴，此官之職也。又助駕切，音乍。年終祭名。《禮·禮運》仲尼與于蜡賔。《註》夏曰淸祀，殷曰嘉平，周曰蜡，秦曰臘。《郊特牲》蜡也者，索也。歲十二月，合聚萬物而索饗之也。又《玉篇》子六切，音蹙。蟲名。蜡祭之蜡。《廣韻》或作䄍。《六書正譌》从虫昔聲。別作䄍，从示，非。 考證：〔《說文》蠅膽也。〕謹照原文膽改胆。 |
| Fanqie: | 七慮 (《廣韻·去聲·御·覰》) 鋤駕 (《廣韻·去聲·禡·乍》) |
| Unihan definition: | wax; candle; waxy, glazed; maggot; as a non-simplified form sometimes used as an equivalent to U+410D 䄍, meaning imperial harvest |
Example usage
| 《禮記·禮運》: | 昔者仲尼與於蜡賓，事畢，出游於觀之上，喟然而嘆。 |
| Formerly Zhong-ni was present as one of the guests at the Ji sacrifice; and when it was over, he went out and walked backwards and forwards on the terrace over the gate of Proclamations, looking sad and sighing. | |
| 《孔子家語·觀鄉射》: | 子貢觀於蜡。 |
| 《風俗通義·臘》: | 謹按：《禮傳》：「夏曰嘉平，殷曰清祀，周曰大蜡，漢改為臘。」 |
| 《獨斷·卷上》: | 四代稱臘之別名：夏曰嘉平，殷曰清祀，周曰大蜡，漢曰臘。 |
| 《蔡中郎集·獨斷》: | 天子大蜡八神之別名：蜡之言索也，祭日索此八神而祭之也。 |
| 《說文解字·虫部》: | 蜡：蠅䏣也。 |
| 《世說新語·德行》: | 歆蜡日，嘗集子姪燕飲，王亦學之。 |
| 《群書治要·禮運》: | 昔者，仲尼與於蜡賓，蜡者索也。 |
| 《藝文類聚·臘》: | 《風俗通》曰：禮傳曰：夏曰嘉平，殷曰清祀，周曰大蜡，漢改曰臈，臈者臘也。 |
| 《通典·含》: | 大蜡有皮弁素服送終之禮。 |
| 《四書章句集注》: | 祭祀不失禮，而土穀之神不能為民禦災捍患，則毀其壇壝而更置之，亦年不順成，八蜡不通之意，是社稷雖重於君而輕於民也。 |
| 《論語注疏·鄉黨》: | 其「黃衣，狐裘」，謂大蜡息民之祭服也 |
| 《西遊記》: | 趕蜻蜓，撲蜡。 |
| 《廣韻·覰》: | 蜡：周禮有蜡氏。 |
| 《太平廣記·董慎》: | 豈可使太古育物之心，生仲尼觀蜡之歎。 |
| 《朱子語類·祭》: | 張以道問：「蜡便是臘否？」 |
| 《墨子閒詁·非命上》: | 洪云：「《禮記·郊特牲》『順成之方，其蜡乃通，以移民也』，鄭注『移之言羡也』，『移』古通作『侈』字，『侈』亦是有餘之義。」 |
| 《康熙字典·阜部》: | 《裴秀大蜡詩》告成伊何，年豐物阜。 |
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