Chinese symbol for “stoker”
司炉
sī lú
Traditional: 司爐
stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stoker is 司炉 (sī lú), defined as: stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 司炉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 有限公司 | yǒu xiàn gōng sī | limited company; corporation |
| 司法 | sī fǎ | judicial; (administration of) justice |
| 司机 (司機) | sī jī | chauffeur; driver |
| 司令 | sī lìng | commanding officer |
| 航空公司 | háng kōng gōng sī | airline; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 出炉 (出爐) | chū lú | to take out of the furnace; fresh out of the oven |
| 锅炉 (鍋爐) | guō lú | boiler |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stoker”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.