柴
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firewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)
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How 柴 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
木 (semantic, “wood”) + 此 (phonetic, cǐ)
How to remember it
firewood · Heisig RSH #1711
此 this (literary) + 木 tree
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 此
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 此 (cǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 此 sound component | cǐ | this, these; in this case, then |
| 紫 | zǐ | purple, violet; amethyst; surname |
| 雌 | cí | female; feminine; gentle, soft |
| 些 | xiē | little, few; rather, somewhat |
| 眦 | zì | eye socket; the corner of the eye |
| 赀 | zī | wealth, property; to estimate, to count |
| 呲 | cī | to grimace; to bare one's teeth |
| 疵 | cī | flaw, fault, defect; disease |
| 觜 | zī | beak |
| 訾 | zī | to criticize, to bad-mouth; defect; betrayal |
| 龇 | zī | to bare one's teeth; crooked teeth |
| 茈 | zǐ | a plant yielding a red dye |
| 髭 | zī | mustache |
Words containing 柴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 柴油发动机 | chái yóu fā dòng jī | diesel engine |
| 布拉柴维尔 | Bù lā chái wéi ěr | Brazzaville, capital of Congo |
| 不当家不知柴米贵 | bù dāng jiā bù zhī chái mǐ guì | a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom) |
| 柴电机车 | chái diàn jī chē | diesel-electric locomotive |
| 柴可夫斯基 | Chái kě fū sī jī | Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer |
| 柴科夫斯基 | Chái kē fū sī jī | Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the o… |
| 生物柴油 | shēng wù chái yóu | biodiesel |
| 火柴人 | huǒ chái rén | stick figure; stick person |
| 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧 | liú de qīng shān zài , bù pà méi chái shāo | While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's h… |
| 柴门小户 | chái mén xiǎo hù | woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel; fig. my humble house |
| 大柴旦行政委员会 | Dà chái dàn xíng zhèng wěi yuán huì | Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族… |
| 柴油机 | chái yóu jī | diesel engine |
| 大柴旦行政区 | Dà chái dàn xíng zhèng qū | Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族… |
| 满口胡柴 | mǎn kǒu hú chái | to spout nonsense; to bullshit endlessly |
| 柴达木 | Chái dá mù | Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Ti… |
| 柴达木盆地 | Chái dá mù pén dì | Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Ti… |
| 柴鱼片 | chái yú piàn | katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna) |
| 纸火柴 | zhǐ huǒ chái | matches made of cardboard |
| 柴米油盐 | chái mǐ yóu yán | (lit.) firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom); (fig.) life's daily necessities |
| 北柴胡 | běi chái hú | honewort; Cryptotaenia japonica |