灶
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kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 火 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 灶
- Common rank
- #1,812
- Unicode
- U+7076
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Formation & memory
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Words with 灶
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 开小灶 | to give preferential treatment; to give special attention | |
| 分灶吃饭 | "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that… | |
| 灶神星 | Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupit… | |
| 吃小灶 | to be given special treatment; to be treated in a favored way | |
| 局灶性 | (medicine) focal; localized | |
| 老虎灶 | old-style large kitchen stove | |
| 重起炉灶 | to start over from scratch (idiom) | |
| 大灶 | large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth; (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining sta… | |
| 中灶 | mess hall for mid-level cadres; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4] | |
| 灶马 | camel cricket | |
| 小灶 | mess hall for high-ranking cadres; (fig.) special treatment; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4] | |
| 家灶 | hearth | |
| 灶眼 | stovetop burner | |
| 灶神 | Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen | |
| 病灶 | (medicine) lesion; focus of disease; nidus | |
| 灶火 | stove; kitchen | |
| 灶台 | stovetop; rangetop | |
| 土灶 | earthen stove; clay stove (typically wood-fired) | |
| 灶王 | Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神 | |
| 灶间 | (dialect) kitchen |