竈

See also: 竃 and 灶

竈 U+7AC8, 竈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AC8 ← 竇 [U+7AC7] CJK Unified Ideographs 竉 → [U+7AC9]

Translingual

Traditional	竈/灶
Shinjitai (extended)	竃
Simplified	灶

Han character

竈 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+16, 21 strokes, cangjie input 十金土口山 (JCGRU), composition ⿱𥤧黽)

Derived characters

• 𢥼

Descendants

• 竃 (Japanese shinjitai character)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 869, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25703
• Dae Jaweon: page 1298, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2746, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7AC8

Chinese

trad.		竈
simp.		灶
alternative forms		竃 𥨫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (圥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
灶	*ʔsluːɡs
竈	*ʔsluːɡs
鼀	*sʰluɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zào (zao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zou³
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵tsau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zào
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zào
    • Wade–Giles: tsao⁴
    • Yale: dzàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzaw
    • Palladius: цзао (czao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zou³
    • Yale: jou
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzou³
    • Guangdong Romanization: zou³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sou̯³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵tsau
    • MiniDict: tsau^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²tsau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sɔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsawH

Rime
Character	竈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	則到切
Baxter	tsawH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑuH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑuH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sawH/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑuH/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zou3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤuk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsluːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	竈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zào
Middle Chinese	‹ tsawH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁuk-s/
English	cooking-place, stove
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	竈
Reading #	1/1
No.	8529
Phonetic component	圥
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	竈
Old Chinese	/*ʔsluːɡs/

Definitions

竈

1. Alternative form of 灶 (zào, “stove; kitchen range; kitchen”)
2. forty-fourth tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "stove" (𝌱)

Usage notes

• In the first batch of simplified Chinese characters (1935), it was proposed for this character to be simplified as 灶 (zào). The simplification of 竈 to 灶 (zào) was finally approved in 1965 in mainland China. Note that in traditional Chinese (Taiwan), this character is classified as a variant form of 灶 (zào).

Japanese

Shinjitai (extended)	竃
Kyūjitai	竈

Kanji

竈

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 竃)

1. Kyūjitai form of 竃

Readings

• Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
• Kun: かまど (kamado, 竈); かま (kama, 竈); くど (kudo, 竈); へつい (hetsui, 竈); へっつい (hettsui, 竈)

Usage notes

竃 (U+7AC3) which is an extended shinjitai character that was added to JIS X 0208 in 1990, is the preferred form for this character.

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
竈
かまど Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 竈 – see the following entry.

【かまど】 [noun] kamado (traditional Japanese stove) Alternative spelling 竃

(This term, 竈, is the kyūjitai of an alternative spelling (竃) of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
竈
かま Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 竈 – see the following entry.

【かま】 [noun] 竃, 竈: a kitchen range Alternative spelling 竃

(This term, 竈, is the kyūjitai of an alternative spelling (竃) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

竈 • (jo) (hangeul 조)

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