| 窑洞 | yáo dòng | yaodong (a kind of cave dwelling in the Loess Plateau in northwest China); Classifiers: 孔 | |
| 砖窑 | zhuān yáo | brick kiln | |
| 土窑 | tǔ yáo | earthen kiln; loess cave | |
| 窑姐 | yáo jiě | (dialect) prostitute | |
| 窑姐儿 | yáo jiě r | erhua variant of 窑姐 |
| 1 | I leaned the microphone up against Raylou's groundhog kiln. | |
| 2 | That morning we fired our first kiln of charcoal. | |
| 3 | All the while, the number of noxious steel mills, cement kilns and power plants relentlessly increases. | |
| 4 | The story of the three Hebrew children being cast into the fiery furnace is a familiar one. | |
| 5 | The rules would cover 163 kilns in 35 states. |