炉 — Chinese character
炉
lú
fireplace, furnace, oven, stove
- Pinyin
- lú
- Radical
- 86 ⽕ (Fire)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 火 户
- Formation
- ideographic — A fire 火 in one's home 户
- Traditional
- 爐
- Japanese
- 炉 as a kanji
Common words with 炉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出炉 (出爐) | chū lú | to take out of the furnace; fresh out of the oven |
| 锅炉 (鍋爐) | guō lú | boiler |
| 微波炉 (微波爐) | wēi bō lú | microwave oven; 台 (tái) |
| 火炉 (火爐) | huǒ lú | stove |
| 炉子 (爐子) | lú zi | stove; oven |
| 熔炉 (熔爐) | róng lú | smelting furnace; forge |
| 壁炉 (壁爐) | bì lú | fireplace |
| 香炉 (香爐) | xiāng lú | a censer (for burning incense); incense burner |
| 高炉 (高爐) | gāo lú | blast furnace |
| 电炉 (電爐) | diàn lú | electric stove; hot plate |
| 另起炉灶 (另起爐灶) | lìng qǐ lú zào | lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch; back to square one |
| 炉火 (爐火) | lú huǒ | the fire of a stove |
English words written with 炉
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.