kiln, oven, furnace
窯 centers on a heated enclosed space for processing materials: a kiln for pottery, an oven for baking, or a furnace for intense heat.
窯 combines 穴 (hole, cavity) with 羔 (lamb), but the historical origin is uncertain. The modern form likely reflects a kiln as a cavity where something is heated, but the role of 羔 is unclear.
The top 穴 is a cave-like opening, and the bottom 羔 looks like a lamb. Picture a lamb-shaped clay figure being fired inside a cave-like kiln: the heat transforms it into pottery.
For ヨウ, imagine a potter yelling 'Yo!' as he pulls a finished pot from the kiln: Yo! -> ヨウ, and the kiln is hot.
stove; furnace; kiln
ceramics; ceramic industry
pottery (i.e. the place)
stone oven; masonry oven; brick oven
tunnel kiln
pizza oven
ruins of old kilns; old kiln sites
earthen kiln
governmental porcelain furnace
TYK Corporation
charcoal kiln
charcoal kiln; charcoal pile
oven; kiln
tile kiln
climbing kiln; ascending kiln; connected (pottery) kilns built on a slope
brick-oven pizza; wood-fired pizza
very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill
removing pots from kiln
potter's mark
kiln-equipped pottery workshop