灶君
Zào jūn
Pinyin
Definition
灶君
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- Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen
- also written 灶神
Character Decomposition
Idioms (14)
仁人君子
- 1 people of good will (idiom); charitable person
以小人之心,度君子之腹
- 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
伴君如伴虎
- 1 being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom)
另起炉灶
- 1 lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch
- 2 back to square one
- 3 to start of on a new path
君子之交
- 1 friendship between gentlemen, insipid as water (idiom, from Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuāng zǐ])