HSK 6 · Objects

炉灶 lúzào “stove” in Chinese

Traditional 爐灶

What 炉灶 means

  1. stove
  2. kitchen range

How to say 炉灶

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale炉lú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale灶zào4th tone, falling

炉灶 in a sentence

  1. 烹饪结束后请清洁炉灶和烤箱。

    Pēngrèn jiéshù hòu qǐng qīngjié lúzào hé kǎoxiāng.

    Please clean the stove and oven after cooking.

    Sentence #13556538 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 炉灶 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 炉 (lú) with each of its parts in a different colour
炉lústove
  • 火fire · huǒ
  • 户door · hù
The character 灶 (zào) with each of its parts in a different colour
灶zàokitchen stove
  • 火fire · huǒ
  • 土earth · tǔ

How to write 炉灶

炉 8 strokes · 灶 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

炉灶 (lúzào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 炉灶 (lúzào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

炉灶 (lúzào) means “stove” or “kitchen range”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it lúzào: lú with a 2nd tone, then zào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 炉灶 is written 爐灶. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type luzao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 炉灶 from the suggestions. Typing luzao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
炉灶 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.