947B35 62A.70-1 | [zao4] . [Pop. 灶] | |||||
N | A 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; 倒 have bad luck, suffer loss (reverse), meet with failure (rebuff, disaster); 分(of members of the same household) have separate kitchens; 祭 to sacrifice to the kitchen god; 辭 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; 送 ditto; 封 stop cooking fresh meals on the Lunar New Year's Eve. | |||||
Words | 1.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. |