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炉灶

lú zào

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 爐灶

What 炉灶 means

1. stove

The characters in 炉灶

• 炉lústove; furnace
• 灶zàokitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen

Example sentences

• 约翰离开了公司，另起炉灶。
  Yuēhàn líkāi le gōngsī, lìngqǐlúzào.
  John turned his back on the company and started on his own.
• 烹饪结束后请清洁炉灶和烤箱。
  Clean the stove and oven after cooking.

Words containing 炉灶

• 另起炉灶lìng qǐ lú zàolit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch; back to square one…
• 重起炉灶chóng qǐ lú zàoto start over from scratch (idiom)

Where 炉灶 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · lún–shuài (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lú zào correctly.
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