mess hall for mid-level cadres; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]

to fall (from power); in decline; unlucky

earthen stove; clay stove (typically wood-fired)

large kitchen stove made from bricks or earth; (PRC) ordinary mess hall (lowest dining standard, ranked below 中灶[zhong1 zao4] for mid-level cadres and 小灶[xiao3 zao4] for the most privileged)

hearth

mess hall for high-ranking cadres; (fig.) special treatment; cf. 大灶[da4 zao4]

stove; cooker; (dialect) cooking utensils

stovetop; rangetop

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神

(dialect) kitchen

(dialect) kitchen

stove; kitchen

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神

stovetop burner

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen

(dialect) kitchen

camel cricket

stove

(medicine) lesion; focus of disease; nidus

to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god

to surpass one's father

see 送灶[song4 Zao4]

seeing off the kitchen god 灶神[Zao4 shen2] (traditional rite)

stove; cooking burner

to be given special treatment; to be treated in a favored way

(medicine) focal; localized

to give preferential treatment; to give special attention

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen; also written 灶神

Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers

old-style large kitchen stove

"transparent kitchen" – a kitchen (in a restaurant, school cafeteria etc) in which food preparation processes are made visible to customers (by means of transparent glass, live video etc) to promote hygiene and ensure accountability in food safety practices

"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch; back to square one; to start of on a new path

to start over from scratch (idiom)