| 窯 | [ yaó ] kiln, oven, coal pit, cave dwelling, (coll.) brothel |
| 窯場 | [ yaó chǎng ] brick kiln |
| 窯姐 | [ yaó jiě ] (dialect) prostitute |
| 窯姐兒 | [ yaó jiě ] erhua variant of 窯姐|窑姐[yao2 jie3] |
| 窯子 | [ yaó zi ] (old) low-grade brothel |
| 窯洞 | [ yaó dòng ] yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China), CL:孔[kong3] |
| ⇒ 土窯 | [ tǔ yaó ] earthen kiln, loess cave |
| ⇒ 破瓦寒窯 | [ pò wǎ hán yaó ] lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house, poor and shabby dwelling |
| ⇒ 磚窯 | [ zhuān yaó ] brick kiln |
| ⇒ 磚窯場 | [ zhuān yaó chǎng ] brick kiln |
| ⇒ 苦窯 | [ kǔ yaó ] (slang) prison |
| ⇒ 蹲苦窯 | [ dūn kǔ yaó ] (slang) to be behind bars |
| ⇒ 黑磚窯 | [ heī zhuān yaó ] lit. black brick kiln, factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor |