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HSK
7-9

cooking stove

Composition


Components

Sounds

Pinyin

zao4 zào

Meaning


Primary

cooking stove

Alternatives

kitchen stove, stove

Mnemonic


[z-] Zelda is in the [4] bathroom of the [-ao] barn where she is trying to make a simple 灶 cooking stove to heat up her glasses of milk. She uses the Triforce to compact a bunch of 土 soil to form a 灶 cooking stove there in the stinky bathroom. Then she lights some manure on 火 fire to turn it on, and uses that to slowly warm up her milk.

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