zào
灶 (zào) is a Chinese word meaning “kitchen stove; kitchen; mess; canteen”.
Meanings
- 1kitchen stove
- 2kitchen; mess; canteen
Related words
灶variant of 灶[zao4]病灶(medicine) lesion; focus of disease; nidus炉灶stove另起炉灶lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch灶台stovetop; rangetop开小灶to give preferential treatment灶间(dialect) kitchen小灶mess hall for high-ranking cadres中灶mess hall for mid-level cadres倒灶to fall (from power)分灶吃饭"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC吃小灶to be given special treatment