| 竈 | |||
| furnace; kitchen stove | |||
| Radical | 穴𥤢 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 16 | Total Strokes | 21 |
| Mandarin reading | zaò | Cantonese reading | zou3 |
| Japanese on reading | sou | Japanese kun reading | kamado |
| Korean reading | co | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 灶 | ||
| Semantic Variant(s) | 灶 | ||
| 竈 | [ zaò ] variant of 灶[zao4] |
| ⇒ 分竈吃飯 | [ fēn zaò chī fàn ] "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC |
| ⇒ 吃小竈 | [ chī zaò ] to be given special treatment, to be treated in a favored way |
| ⇒ 跨竈 | [ kuà zaò ] to surpass one's father |
| ⇒ 重起爐竈 | [ chóng qǐ lú zaò ] to start over from scratch (idiom) |