zào
variant of 灶, kitchen stove
furnace
fēn zào chī fàn
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
chī xiǎo zào
to be given special treatment
to be treated in a favored way
chóng qǐ lú zào
to start over from scratch (idiom)