zào
furnace
Components
Evolution
Bronze script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 竈
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
kitchen | ||
lesion | ||
stove | ||
back to square one | ||
to give preferential treatment |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤuk-s | tsawH | zào | cooking-place, stove |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2691st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Unicode | U+7AC8 |
Shuowen | “穴黽，炊竈也。从穴，鼀省聲。，竈或不省。” |
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