炉 means “hearth, furnace”

ろ · ro

Also: kiln, reactor

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

いろり

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ロ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 8 strokes

The story

Fire (火) behind a door (戸): a furnace you open to feed. 炉 is a hearth or furnace: 囲炉裏 is the sunken hearth of an old farmhouse, 暖炉 a fireplace, and 原子炉 the reactor at the heart of a nuclear plant.

Used in 暖炉 (danro, fireplace), 原子炉 (genshiro, nuclear reactor), and 囲炉裏 (irori, sunken hearth)

More from Fire & Flood

• 惨 miserable
• 墜 crash
• 遭 meet with (trouble)
• 洪 flood
• 薪 firewood
• 氾 overflow
• 濫 overflow
• 災 disaster
• 炎 flame
• 噴 erupt

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.