hearth, kitchen stove
竈 centers on a fixed cooking fire: a traditional hearth or kitchen stove where food is prepared over flames.
竈 combines 穴 (cave, hole) with 土 (earth) and 黽 (a pictograph of a frog or toad), suggesting an earthen cavity used for fire. The exact historical development is uncertain, but the character likely depicts a traditional clay stove or hearth.
Picture a cave-like opening (穴) dug into the earth (土) where a fire burns, and the lower part (黽) looks like a squat, rounded stove with a chimney. Together, 竈 is a hearth or kitchen stove.
For ソウ, imagine the soul (ソウ) of the home: the hearth where meals are cooked and warmth is shared. Soul -> ソウ, and the hearth is its heart.
smokehole on hearth
kamado; traditional Japanese wood or charcoal-fueled cook stove
Japanese rowan (Sorbus commixta)
to make a fortune
Sorbus gracilis (species of mountain ash)
Chamisso's lousewort (Pedicularis chamissonis var. japonica)
charcoal burned in an earthen kiln
camel cricket (Diestrammena apicalis); camelback cricket; cave cricket; spider cricket
to make a fortune; to build family wealth
deity of the hearth; god of the kitchen stove
rowan (Sorbus aucuparia); mountain-ash
Siberian mountain ash (Sorbus sambucifolia)