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炷

zhù
noun #50,611

Meanings

  1. 1 the wick of an oil lamp
  2. 2 to burn (incense)
  3. 3 classifier for sticks of burning incense

Examples

她在佛像前点了一炷香。
Tā zài fóxiàng qián diǎn le yí zhù xiāng.
She lit a stick of incense before the Buddha statue.
灯炷烧尽，主人去换新的。
Dēngzhù shāo jìn, zhǔrén qù huàn xīn de.
The lamp wick had burned out, so the host went to replace it.

Tips

usage
Two everyday uses: the noun 灯炷 ('lamp wick'), and the measure word in 一炷香 ('one stick of incense') — a phrase also used to mean roughly the time it takes one incense stick to burn.

Components

radical
火 huǒ
fire
Left side is the fire radical 火, since a wick is the part that burns and the verb sense is 'to set alight'.
phonetic
主 zhǔ
master; sound element
Right side 主 supplies the sound, with a tone shift to 炷. Fittingly, 主 itself depicts a lamp flame, echoing this character's wick sense.

Stroke Order

炷 zhù