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HSK
stove
HSK 7-9
focus of infection / lesion / nidus
to give preferential treatment / to give special attention
hearth
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
"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
to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *灶* | 灶* | *灶
kitchen stove / kitchen; mess; canteen
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
kitchen (dialect) / CL: 間|间
lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch / back to square one / to start of on a new path
stovetop; rangetop
seeing off the kitchen god 灶神 (traditional rite)
old-style large kitchen stove
mess hall for high-ranking cadres / (fig.) special treatment / cf. 大灶
mess hall for mid-level cadres / cf. 大灶
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)
to fall (from power) / in decline / unlucky
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *竈* | 竈* | *竈
variant of
stove / cooker / (dialect) cooking utensils
camel cricket
to surpass one's father
"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
(medicine) focal
stove / kitchen
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
stovetop burner
Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers
see 送灶
to start over from scratch (idiom)
stove / cooking burner


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