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竈 — Chinese character

竈
zào
furnace; kitchen stove

Pinyin
zào
Radical
116 ⽳ (Cave)
Strokes
21
Components
穴 土 黽
Formation
pictophonetic — hole; meaning component 穴
Simplified
灶
Japanese
竈 as a kanji

竈 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 3

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.