窑 — Chinese character
窑
yáo
kiln, oven; pit, coal mine
- Pinyin
- yáo
- Radical
- 116 ⽳ (Cave)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 穴 缶
- Formation
- ideographic — An oven 穴 where pots 缶 are fired; 缶 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 窯
Common words with 窑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 窑洞 (窯洞) | yáo dòng | yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China); measure word: 孔 (kǒng) |
| 砖窑 (磚窯) | zhuān yáo | brick kiln |
| 窑子 (窯子) | yáo zi | (old) low-grade brothel |
| 土窑 (土窯) | tǔ yáo | earthen kiln; loess cave |
| 窑姐 (窯姐) | yáo jiě | (dialect) prostitute |
| 窑场 (窰場) | yáo cháng | (Yuan dynasty) porcelain kilns (under imperial administration) |
| 窑姐儿 (窯姐兒) | yáo jiě r | erhua variant of 窑姐 (yáo jiě) |
| 破瓦寒窑 (破瓦寒窯) | pò wǎ hán yáo | lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house; poor and shabby dwelling |
| 砖窑场 (磚窯場) | zhuān yáo chǎng | brick kiln |
| 苦窑 (苦窯) | kǔ yáo | (slang) prison |
| 蹲苦窑 (蹲苦窯) | dūn kǔ yáo | (slang) to be behind bars |
| 黑砖窑 (黑磚窯) | hēi zhuān yáo | lit. black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor |
English words written with 窑
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.