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HSK
stove
HSK 7-9
(medicine) focal
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灶* | 灶* | *灶
kitchen stove / kitchen; mess; canteen
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
to start over from scratch (idiom)
lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path
mess hall for mid-level cadres / cf. 大灶
hearth
mess hall for high-ranking cadres / (fig.) special treatment / cf. 大灶
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to be given special treatment / to be treated in a favored way
stovetop; rangetop
(dialect) kitchen
to give preferential treatment / to give special attention
stovetop burner
"transparent kitchen" – a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food preparation processes are made visible to customers (by means of transparent glass, live video etc) to promote hygiene and ensure accountability in food safety practices
old-style large kitchen stove
large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth / (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶 for mid-level cadres and 小灶 for the most privileged)
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
(dialect) kitchen
(dialect) kitchen
stove / cooking burner
to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god
focus of infection / lesion / nidus
see 送灶
Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers
to surpass one's father
stove / kitchen
stove / cooker / (dialect) cooking utensils
to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
seeing off the kitchen god 灶神 (traditional rite)
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
camel cricket
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灶* | 灶* | *灶
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