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窑
窯
yáo
1.
kiln
2.
oven
3.
coal pit
4.
cave dwelling
5.
(coll.) brothel
Uncommon • Top 34%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (12)
土窑
tǔyáo
earthen kiln
砖窑
zhuānyáo
brick kiln
窑场
yáochǎng
brick kiln
窑姐
yáojiě
(dialect) prostitute
窑子
yáozi
(old) low-grade brothel
窑洞
yáodòng
yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China)
苦窑
kǔyáo
(slang) prison
砖窑场
zhuānyáochǎng
brick kiln
窑姐儿
yáojiěr
erhua variant of [[窯姐|窑姐<yáojiě>]]
蹲苦窑
dūnkǔyáo
(slang) to be behind bars
黑砖窑
hēizhuānyáo
lit. black brick kiln
破瓦寒窑
pòwǎhányáo
lit. broken tiles, cold hearth; fig. a broken-down house
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Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- Character Frequency Rank
- 2,341
- Word Frequency Rank
- 28,746 of 84,292