材 — Chinese character
材
cái
timber; material, stuff; talent
- Pinyin
- cái
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 木 才
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 才
- Japanese
- 材 as a kanji
Common words with 材
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 材料 | cái liào | (raw) material; data |
| 题材 (題材) | tí cái | subject matter |
| 教材 | jiào cái | teaching material; measure word: 本 (běn) |
| 身材 | shēn cái | stature; build (height and weight) |
| 木材 | mù cái | wood |
| 器材 | qì cái | equipment; material |
| 素材 | sù cái | source material (in literature and art) |
| 建材 | jiàn cái | building materials |
| 棺材 | guān cai | coffin; measure word: 具 (jù), 口 (kǒu) |
| 原材料 | yuán cái liào | raw and semifinished materials |
| 钢材 (鋼材) | gāng cái | steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc |
| 材质 (材質) | cái zhì | texture of timber; quality of material |
English words written with 材
材 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 15 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 5.6
- Art of War 2.1
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 6A.8
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.