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zào

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zào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zào | zao4
English translation
furnace; kitchen stove

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About zào

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Number of strokes

21

Traditional form

zào

Contains the radical

xué

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

hole

Etymology of zào

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

xué 土黽

Semantic compound

xué

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Words with zào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
zào kitchen 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

zào Decomposition & Compounds

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