柴 chái

1. chái noun firewood; faggots; fuel
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 柴火 or 木柴 (ABC 'chái' 柴 n 1, p. 89; Guoyu '柴' n 1; Kroll 2015 '柴' 1, p. 38; Mathews 1931 '柴', p. 13; NCCED '柴' 1, p. 166; Unihan '柴')
2. chái proper noun Chai
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (ABC 'chái' 柴 n 2, p. 89; Guoyu '柴' n 2)
3. chái adjective lean; skinny
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
   Notes: (ABC 'chái' 柴 sv, p. 89; Guoyu '柴' adj 2; NCCED '柴' 2, p. 166)
4. chái noun a firewood collector
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '柴' 1a, p. 38)
5. chái verb to give a burned offering
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '柴' v 1; Kroll 2015 '柴' 2, p. 38; Mathews 1931 '柴', p. 13)
6. zhài verb to barricade
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '柴' zhài v; Kroll 2015 '柴' zhài 1, p. 38)
7. zhài verb to protect
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 保护 (Guoyu '柴' v 2; Kroll 2015 '柴' zhài 1a, p. 38)
8. zhài verb to obstruct
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '柴' zhài 2, p. 38)
9. chái adjective tough
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
   Notes: (ABC 'chái' 柴 sv, p. 89; Guoyu '柴' adj 3; NCCED '柴' 3, p. 166)
10. chái adjective inferior
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
    Notes: (NCCED '柴' 4, p. 166)

Contained in

• 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧(留得青山在，不怕沒柴燒) While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn . Where there's life there's hope.
• 柴米 firewood and grain; daily necessities
• 柴草 firewood
• 柴薪 firewood
• 引火柴 kindling
• 捡柴(撿柴) collect firewood
• 柴火 firewood
• 柴可夫斯基 Tchaikovsky
• 柴胡 Chinese thorowax
• 芦柴棒(蘆柴棒) reed stem; (fig.) extremely skinny person
• 柴鱼片(柴魚片) katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes
• 不当家不知柴米贵(不當家不知柴米貴) a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is
• 柴行 place for selling firewood
• 柴车(柴車) simple and crude cart or chariot ; a cart or hauling firewood
• 柴电机车(柴電機車) diesel-electric locomotive
• 磨刀不误砍柴工(磨刀不誤砍柴工) sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer; time invested in preparations is not lost
• 骨瘦如柴 as thin as a match; emaciated
• 引柴 kindling (to light a fire)
• 木柴 firewood
• 柴心儿(柴心兒) dry; tough
• 北柴胡 honewort
• 柴扉 a faggot door
• 打柴 to chop firewood; to gather firewood
• 柴毁(柴毀) emaciated like firewood
• 柴鸡(柴雞) a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
• 柴田 Shibata
• 柴瘠 emaciated like firewood
• 烈火干柴(烈火乾柴) intense fire to dry wood; inferno in a woodpile; consuming passion between lovers
• 纸火柴(紙火柴) matches made of cardboard
• 秤柴而爨 to weight the firewood and then do the cooking; extremely frugal
• 检柴(檢柴) gather firewood
• 劈柴 to chop firewood
• 柴禾妞 skinny and unsophisticated girl
• 柴望 a burnt sacrificial offering to Heaven and the mountains and rivers
• 木柴堆 pile of firewood; funeral pyre
• 砍柴 to chop firewood
• 柴米油盐(柴米油鹽) firewood, rice, oil and salt; life's daily necessities
• 柴米油盐酱醋茶(柴米油鹽醬醋茶) firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea; life's daily necessities
• 柴油 diesel fuel
• 柴院子 firewood sales yard

Also contained in

柴达木盆地 、 柴科夫斯基 、 大柴旦 、 柴桑 、 大柴旦镇 、 大柴旦行政委员会 、 柴松林 、 柴契尔夫人 、 大柴旦行政区 、 布拉柴维尔 、 柴达木

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Truncated for common words

• 第五十二回 Chapter 52 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 75
• 第九回 Chapter 9 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 62
• 第七十二回 Chapter 72 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 43
• 第十一回 Chapter 11 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 36
• 第二十二回 Chapter 22 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 30
• 第一百十六回 Chapter 116 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 25
• 卷二十三 志第三: 禮儀三 Volume 23 Treatises 3: Rites 3 Old Book of Tang 舊唐書 — count: 23
• 第五十四回 Chapter 54 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 20
• 第二十三回 Chapter 23 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 20
• 第一百十九回 Chapter 119 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 16

Collocations

• 燔柴 (燔柴) 燔柴於奧 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《禮器》 Rites in the Formation of Character — count: 10
• 柴将军 (柴將軍) 柴將軍在皇帝後 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖本紀》 Annals of Gao Zu — count: 8
• 柴燎 (柴燎) 柴燎上帝 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二 魏書二 文帝紀 Volume 2: Book of Wei 2 - Annals of Emperor Wen — count: 7
• 侯柴 (侯柴) 使棘蒲侯柴將軍擊破虜濟北王 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《齊悼惠王世家》 House of Prince Daohui of Qi — count: 6
• 曳柴 (曳柴) 欒枝使輿曳柴而偽遁 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 5
• 柴池 (柴池) 請以令高杠柴池 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重甲第八十 Chapter 80: Weight I — count: 5
• 柴武 (柴武) 及棘蒲侯柴武太子謀反事覺 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《袁盎鼂錯列傳》 Biographies of Yuan Ang and Chao Cuo — count: 5
• 薪柴 (薪柴) 乃命四監收秩薪柴 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 4
• 柴祭 (柴祭) 柴祭於天 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷三十七 桓榮丁鴻列傳 Volume 37: Biographies of Huan Rong, Ding Hong — count: 4
• 高柴 (高柴) 武伯問於高柴曰 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 4