柴 — Chinese character
柴
chái
firewood, faggots, fuel; surname
- Pinyin
- chái
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 此 木
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 此
- Japanese
- 柴 as a kanji
Common words with 柴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 柴油机 (柴油機) | chái yóu jī | diesel engine |
| 柴油 | chái yóu | diesel fuel |
| 火柴 | huǒ chái | match (for lighting fire); measure word: 根 (gēn), 盒 (hé) |
| 柴火 | chái huo | plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc) |
| 废柴 (廢柴) | fèi chái | (Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing; loser |
| 木柴 | mù chái | firewood |
| 骨瘦如柴 | gǔ shòu rú chái | (idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated |
| 柴胡 | chái hú | Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense); root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM) |
| 干柴烈火 (乾柴烈火) | gān chái liè huǒ | (idiom) explosive mutual passion; blaze of passion (esp. between lovers) |
| 柴犬 | chái quǎn | shiba inu (Japanese dog breed) |
| 柴门 (柴門) | chái mén | lit. woodcutter's family; humble background |
| 劈柴 | pī chái | to chop firewood; to split logs |
English words written with 柴
柴 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Zhuangzi 4
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.