yáo

kiln

An oven  where pots  are fired;  also provides the pronunciation

Components
穴 meaning component

  Meaning component

xué

  

cave

缶 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

fǒu

  

pottery

Evolution

窑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
窑 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
窑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
窑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

yáo

kiln; coal mine pit; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel

() 

yáo

variant of |[yáo]

Most common words with 窑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

kiln

土窑

earthen kiln

窑洞

CL:孔[kǒng]

窑子

(old) low-grade brothel

窑姐

(dialect) prostitute

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2342nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+7A91


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