炉灶

lú zào · HSK 7

stove

🔥🍳 炉灶 = 炉 furnace + 灶 cooking-hearth = a kitchen stove

Both characters carry the 火 fire radical idea: 炉 is a furnace or burner, 灶 is the brick cooking-hearth. Stack the two heat-words and you get 炉灶, the full kitchen stove.

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