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灶

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kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen

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How 灶 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A clay 土 oven 火

components: 火 土

How to remember it

cooking stove · Heisig RSH #1548

火 fire + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 灶

WordPinyinMeaning
开小灶 kāi xiǎo zào to give preferential treatment; to give special attention
分灶吃饭 fēn zào chī fàn "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that…
灶神星 Zào shén xīng Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupit…
吃小灶 chī xiǎo zào to be given special treatment; to be treated in a favored way
局灶性 jú zào xìng (medicine) focal; localized
老虎灶 lǎo hǔ zào old-style large kitchen stove
重起炉灶 chóng qǐ lú zào to start over from scratch (idiom)
大灶 dà zào large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth; (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining sta…
中灶 zhōng zào mess hall for mid-level cadres; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]
灶马 zào mǎ camel cricket
小灶 xiǎo zào mess hall for high-ranking cadres; (fig.) special treatment; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]
家灶 jiā zào hearth
灶眼 zào yǎn stovetop burner
灶神 Zào shén Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
病灶 bìng zào (medicine) lesion; focus of disease; nidus
灶火 zào huo stove; kitchen
灶台 zào tái stovetop; rangetop
土灶 tǔ zào earthen stove; clay stove (typically wood-fired)
灶间 zào jiān (dialect) kitchen
灶王 Zào wáng Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神