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窑

yáo

Character Traditional 窯

What 窑 means

1. kiln
2. oven
3. coal pit
4. cave dwelling
5. colloquialbrothel

Other readings

窑 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yáovariant of {窑|yáo}

Words starting with 窑

• 窑洞yáo dòngyaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
• 窑子yáo zi(old) low-grade brothel
• 窑姐yáo jiě(dialect) prostitute
• 窑场yáo cháng(Yuan dynasty) porcelain kilns (under imperial administration)
• 窑姐儿yáo jiě rerhua variant of 窑姐

Words containing 窑

• 土窑tǔ yáoearthen kiln; loess cave
• 砖窑zhuān yáobrick kiln
• 苦窑kǔ yáo(slang) prison
• 砖窑场zhuān yáo chǎngbrick kiln
• 蹲苦窑dūn kǔ yáo(slang) to be behind bars
• 黑砖窑hēi zhuān yáolit. black brick kiln; factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor
• 破瓦寒窑pò wǎ hán yáolit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house; poor and shabby dwelling

Characters that look like 窑

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 寓yù(bound form) to reside; to inhabit; (bound form) residence; dwelling…
• 窗chuāngwindow
• 窝wōnest; pit or hollow on the human body; lair
• 窖jiàocellar; to store in a cellar
• 窜cuànto flee; to scuttle; to exile or banish
• 雳lìused in 霹雳

Sounds the same

Read yáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 摇to shake; to rock; to row
• 遥(bound form) distant; remote; far away
• 肴meat dishes; mixed viands
• 谣popular ballad; rumor
• 姚handsome; good-looking
• 瑶jade; precious stone; mother-of-pearl
• 侥used in 僬侥
• 爻the solid and broken lines of the eight trigrams 八卦
• 鳐ray (cartilaginous fish, including skates)
• 徭compulsory service
• 繇folk-song; forced labor
• 珧mother-of-pearl