窑
yáo HSK7

kiln

窑 (窯) yáo
brothel place word
(colloquial) a house of prostitution

在旧时代，许多女子被迫沦落到窑里。

zài jiù shí​dài, xǔ​duō nǚ​zǐ bèi​pò lún​luò dào yáo lǐ.

In the old days, many women were forced into brothels.

cave dwelling noun
a traditional room or house excavated from a hillside

他家住在陕北的一口土窑里。

tā jiā zhù zài Shǎn​běi de yī kǒu tǔ yáo lǐ.

His family lives in an earthen cave dwelling in Northern Shaanxi.

kiln noun
a furnace or oven for firing pottery, bricks, or lime

砖窑里正冒着浓烟。

zhuān yáo lǐ zhèng mào zhe nóng​yān.

Thick smoke is coming out of the brick kiln.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,342nd most common 23.8 per million
Movie subtitles
3,580th most common 1.26 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.01 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
10.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
窯
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7A91

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)