炉
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stove; furnace
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 火 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 炉
- Common rank
- #1,318
- Unicode
- U+7089
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Words with 炉
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 新出炉 | fresh out of the oven; fig. novelty just announced; recently made available | |
| 水波炉 | superheated steam oven | |
| 卡式炉 | portable gas stove (fueled by a gas cartridge) | |
| 打边炉 | (Cantonese) to eat hot pot; hot pot | |
| 天炉座 | Fornax (constellation) | |
| 反应炉 | (nuclear etc) reactor | |
| 马丁炉 | Martin furnace; open hearth furnace; open hearth | |
| 微波炉 | microwave oven; CL:臺|台[tai2] | |
| 炉子 | stove; oven; furnace | |
| 地炉 | fire pit | |
| 电炉 | electric stove; hot plate | |
| 高炉 | blast furnace | |
| 出炉 | to take out of the furnace; fresh out of the oven; fig. newly announced; recently made ava… | |
| 开炉 | to open a furnace; to start up a furnace | |
| 鼓风炉 | a blast furnace (in modern times); a draft assisted furnace for smelting metals | |
| 火炉 | stove | |
| 炉火 | the fire of a stove | |
| 炉台 | stove top; hob | |
| 炉火纯青 | (lit.) the stove fire has turned bright green (allusion to Daoist alchemy) (idiom); (fig.)… | |
| 转炉 | converter (rotary furnace in steelmaking) |