柴
Meanings
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- 1.firewood
- 2.lean (of meat)
- 3.thin (of a person)
- 1.surname Chai
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Wiktionary
- 1.firewood; brushwood
- 2.faggot; bundle of sticks bound together (as fuel)
- 3.bony; skinny
- 4.tough and dry (as opposed to tender and succulent); stringy; hard to chew
- 5.no good; poor; inferior
- 6.wood; log; timber
- 7.slow and inarticulate; dull
- 8.to burn firewood and worship heaven
- 9.a surname
- 10.to fence; to surround and protect with fence (made of wood)
- 11.to cover; to place something over
- 12.to stop; to block; to obstruct
- 13.chevron (insignia); stripe (Classifier: 條／条 c)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *zreː): phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 木. Perhaps related to 槎 (OC *zraːl, *zraːlʔ, “to cut trees”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also Khmer ឈើ (chəə, “wood”) (ibid.). On the other hand, the Min forms (e.g. Jian'ou châu, Fuzhou chà, Xiamen chhâ) are from 樵 (OC *zew).
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Related words
火柴 match (for lighting fire)柴油 diesel fuel柴草 firewood柴田 Shibata (Japanese surname and place name)劈柴 chopped wood劈柴 to chop firewood打柴 to chop firewood柴薪 firewood柴火 plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)柴桑 see 柴桑区[Chái sāng Qū]柴门 lit. woodcutter's family柴车 simple and crude cart (or chariot)