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Readings

Kana: ソウ、かまど、かま、へっつい
Romaji: sou, kamado, kama, hettsui
Kana
Romaji

Meanings

hearth, kitchen stove

Stroke Diagram

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Kanji Info

Stroke Count:  21
Radical Number:  116
Frequency: 
Grade: 
Skip Pattern:  2-3-18
Korean Reading:  jo
Chinese Reading:  zao4
Unicode:  7ac8
JIS:  635E

Indexes

Nelson Index: 3341
New Nelson Index: 4221
Spahn Hadamitzky Index: 3m18.1
Four Corner Index: 3071.6
Daikanwanjiten Index: 25703
Daikanwanjiten Index and Page: 8.0688

Words

(かまど、へっつい)
kitchen range; cooking stove; hearth; (kitchen) furnace
(くど)
the rear of an old-fashioned Japanese hearth from which smoke was exhausted; (in Kyoto dialect) the hearth itself
土窯 (どがま)
earthen kiln
七竈 (ななかまど、ナナカマド)
Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)
土竈炭 (どがまずみ)
charcoal burned in an earthen kiln
(かま)
stove; furnace; kiln
竈神 (かまどがみ)
tutelary deities of the hearth
御釜 (おかま、オカマ)
pot; volcanic crater; (one's) buttocks; male homosexual; effeminate man; male transvestite
南京七竈 (ナンキンななかまど、ナンキンナナカマド)
Sorbus gracilis (species of mountain ash)
黄泉竈食ひ (よもつへぐい)
eating the food of the dead (which prevents return from the underworld)
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