窑
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kiln; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 穴 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 窯
- Common rank
- #2,897
- Unicode
- U+7A91
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Formation & memory
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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 with 窑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 破瓦寒窑 | lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house; poor and shabby dwelling | |
| 窑子 | (old) low-grade brothel | |
| 窑姐儿 | erhua variant of 窯姐|窑姐[yao2 jie3] | |
| 窑场 | (Yuan dynasty) porcelain kilns (under imperial administration) | |
| 土窑 | earthen kiln; loess cave | |
| 黑砖窑 | lit. black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor | |
| 砖窑场 | brick kiln | |
| 苦窑 | (slang) prison | |
| 蹲苦窑 | (slang) to be behind bars | |
| 窑洞 | yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China); CL:孔[kong3] | |
| 窑姐 | (dialect) prostitute | |
| 砖窑 | brick kiln |