chái
firewood
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 此 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 柴
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
firewood | ||
match (for lighting fire) | ||
diesel fuel | ||
firewood | ||
diesel engine |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[C.dz]ˤre(j) | dzrea | zì | firewood |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 6.3431% of movies
2258th most common character in movies
1981st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+67F4 |
Shuowen | “柴，小木散材。从木，此聲。” |
Sources
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