the piece of string in the centre of a candle that you light so that the candle burns 烛芯 the piece of material in an oil lamp that takes in the oil and that you light so that the lamp burns 灯芯
Word OriginOld English wēoce, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wiek and German Wieche ‘wick yarn’.
Idioms
get on somebody’s wick
- (British English, informal)
to annoy somebody 激怒(某人);招惹(某人)