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灶 zào

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灶 zào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zào | zao4
English translation
kitchen stove
kitchen
variant of 灶 zào [zào]
kitchen, oven, stove

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About 灶 zào

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

灶 zào

Contains the radical

火 Huǒ

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

A clay 土 Tǔ oven 火 Huǒ

Etymology of 灶 zào

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿰火土

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Example sentences using 灶 zào

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而 ér 春宝却 què 靠 kào 在 zài 灶 zào 边 biān 哭 kū 起来 qǐlai 了 le .

Chun Bao , standing beside the stove, started crying.

他 tā 把 bǎ 煎锅 jiān guō 放在煤气灶上 shǎng 。

He put the frying pan on the gas burner.

大部分 dà bù fen 食物 shíwù 都 dōu 是 shì 在 zài 一口 yī kǒu 很大的 de 烧柴土灶上 shǎng 烹煮 pēng zhǔ 的。

Most of the food is cooked on a large wood-fired oven.

燃气灶的 de 高度 gāo dù 可 kě 调整 tiáozhěng ，使 shǐ 之 zhī 与 yú 厨房 chúfáng 操作台 cāo zuò tái 齐平。

Gas cookers are adjustable in height to line up with your kitchen work top.

Words with 灶 zào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
灶 zào kitchen灶 zào
病灶 bìng zào lesion病灶 bìng zào
炉灶 lúzào stove爐灶
另起炉灶 lìng qǐ lú zào back to square one另起爐灶
开小灶 kāi xiǎo zào to give preferential treatment開小灶
灶具 zào jù stove灶具 zào jù
灶间 zào jiān kitchen (dialect)灶間
小灶 xiǎo zào cf. 大灶 dà zào [dà​zào]小灶 xiǎo zào
灶神 Zào shén Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen灶神 Zào shén
灶王爷 Zào wáng yé also written 灶神 Zào shén 灶王爺
锅灶 guō zào stove鍋灶
吃小灶 chī xiǎo zào to be given special treatment吃小竈
倒灶 dǎo zào in decline倒灶 dǎo zào
老虎灶 lǎo hǔ zào old-style large kitchen stove老虎灶 lǎo hǔ zào
灶君 Zào jūn also written 灶神 Zào shén 灶君 Zào jūn
重起炉灶 chóng qǐ lú zào to start over from scratch (idiom)重起爐竈
送灶 sòng Zào seeing off the kitchen god 灶神 Zào shén [Zào​shén] (traditional rite)送灶 sòng Zào
中灶 zhōng zào cf. 大灶 dà zào [dà​zào]中灶 zhōng zào

灶 zào Decomposition & Compounds

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灶 zào Decomposition

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