947B35 
 62A.70-1 
[zao4. [Pop. ]Homophone
NA cooking stove: 火 a kitchen stove;
兒 ditto;
火炕 the empty space inside a kitchen stove where the fire burns;
窩 ditto;
突 the kitchen chimney;
have bad luck, suffer loss (reverse), meet with failure (rebuff, disaster);
(of members of the same household) have separate kitchens;
to sacrifice to the kitchen god;
bid farewell to the kitchen god on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month when he goes to make his annual report to the God of Heaven;
ditto;
stop cooking fresh meals on the Lunar New Year's Eve.
Words1.戶 [zao4hu4], n., formerly, a worker in saltworks. 
2.君 [zao4jUn1], n., god of the kitchen. 
3.兒上的 [zao4er0shang0de0], n., (coll.) the cook in a restaurant. 
4.馬 [zao4ma3], n., (1)  (zoo.) a kind of cricket usu. found in the kitchen (also 雞); 
5.馬 [zao4ma3], n., (2)  a paper image of the kitchen god (王馬兒). 
6.神 [zao4shen2], n., god of the kitchen. 
7.下養 [zao4xia4yang3], n., (AC) a cook. 
8.心土 [zao4xin1tu3], n., (Chin. med.) earth from the center of a earthen cooking stove. 
9.頭 [zao4tou2], n., kitchen place.