窑
kiln; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel
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Dict coverage rank #2,897 U+7A91
How 窑 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
An oven 穴 where pots 缶 are fired; 缶 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
kiln · Heisig RSH #2880
穴 hole + tin can
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 窑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破瓦寒窑 | pò wǎ hán yáo | lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house; poor and shabby dwelling |
| 窑子 | yáo zi | (old) low-grade brothel |
| 窑姐儿 | yáo jiě r | erhua variant of 窯姐|窑姐[yao2 jie3] |
| 窑场 | yáo cháng | (Yuan dynasty) porcelain kilns (under imperial administration) |
| 土窑 | tǔ yáo | earthen kiln; loess cave |
| 黑砖窑 | hēi zhuān yáo | lit. black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor |
| 砖窑场 | zhuān yáo chǎng | brick kiln |
| 苦窑 | kǔ yáo | (slang) prison |
| 蹲苦窑 | dūn kǔ yáo | (slang) to be behind bars |
| 窑洞 | yáo dòng | yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China); CL:孔[kong3] |
| 窑姐 | yáo jiě | (dialect) prostitute |
| 砖窑 | zhuān yáo | brick kiln |