燭しょく

noun

light; lamp

Archaic noun for a light or lamp, now largely replaced by modern terms like 明かり or ランプ. Found in classical texts or fixed expressions.

• 古ふるい文ぶん献けんでは「燭しょく」が灯とう火かを意い味みする。

  In old documents, 燭 means a light or lamp.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

candela (obsolete unit)

Historical unit of luminous intensity, approximately 1.0067 candela. Used as a suffix in compound measurements. Obsolete in modern science.

• 燭しょくは明めい治じ時じ代だいに使つかわれた光こう度どの単たん位いである。

  燭 is a unit of luminous intensity used in the Meiji period.