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竃 = 穴 + 土 + 田 + 乙

竃 is a Japanese kanji written with 17 strokes, listed here under the keyword “kitchen stove”. It is built from 穴 (hole), 土 (soil), 田 (rice field) and 乙 (fish guts). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2662.

Keyword
kitchen stove
RTK frame
2662
Strokes
17
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ソウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
かまど, かま, へっつい
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
кухонная плита
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
竃 furnace

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 穴 hole
  2. 土 soil
  3. 田 rice field
  4. 乙 fish guts

How to find 竃 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “hole” + “soil” + “rice field”. 竃 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 竃 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.