They represent personal style and preference, but they have no actual significance to the holiday.
Each day of Hanukkah, an additional candle is lit on the menorah.
Each candle represents each of the 8 days of Hanukkah.
There isn't one. The holidays are entirely different. The closest you could come is a candle, but a single candle does not represent Hanukkah. You can't use a star either, because a star has nothing to do with Hanukkah.
There are no traditional colors for Hanukkah. But because of Influence by Christmas (namely the fact the Christmas has traditional colors), Jewish people took the colors of the Israeli Flag (blue and white) and made them Hanukkah colors. But this practice is only about 40 years old.
The Shamash, or helper candle.
each candle stands for one day of the miracle of Hanukkah, except for the Shamash (9th candle) which is just a helper candle used to light the others.
There are no specific colors for Hanukkah. Hanukkah wrapping paper often uses the colors of the Israeli flag, which are blue and white, but these aren't Hanukkah colors.
No specific colors are mentioned for Hanukkah in Jewish law.See also:More about Hanukkah
Hanukkah starts with the lighting of a special candle holder called a Chanukiah (Hanukkah-menorah).
No specific colors are mentioned for Hanukkah in Jewish law.See also:More about Hanukkah
there are nine.
The Hanukkah candles don't have names, except for referring to them generically, as neirot Hanukkah (candles of Hanukkah). The one candle which does have a name is the extra one, used to light the others, which is called the shamash (helper).See also:More about Hanukkah