wax
蝋 centers on wax as a substance, especially beeswax or candle wax.
蝋 is the modern simplified form of 蠟. The older form combines 虫 (insect) with 巤, which likely contributed the sound and referred to wax from insects. The modern right side 鼡 is a simplification.
The insect radical 虫 hints at beeswax from bees. The right side 鼡 looks like a mouse, but here imagine a mouse-shaped candle: 虫 + 鼡 = wax.
For ロウ, picture a low-burning candle: low -> ロウ, and the wax slowly melts.
wax
candle
beeswax
paraffin wax
red wax scale
sealing wax
adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
vegetable wax; Japan wax; sumac wax
vegetable wax; Japan wax; sumac wax
crude Japan wax
white wax
petroleum wax
paraffin
pyrophyllite
indigo wax; cylindrical shape made from indigo dye froth, often by boiling the froth with caustic soda, used for coloring paintings, etc.
tree wax; insect wax; Chinese wax
mellite
wax figure; wax doll; wax model; waxwork
waxy lustre; waxy luster
waxing