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柴
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Definitions
- 1. firewood
- 2. lean (of meat)
- 3. thin (of a person)
Example Sentences
1 shown你有火 柴 嗎?
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Words Containing 柴
(Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing
simple and crude cart (or chariot)
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
kindling
skinny and unsophisticated girl
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
firewood
firewood
to chop firewood
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
pile of firewood
katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense)
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[hǎi xī měng gǔ zú zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
chopped wood
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[hǎi xī měng gǔ zú zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
matches made of cardboard
to chop firewood
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
firewood
diesel engine
shiba inu (Japanese dog breed)
lit. woodcutter's family
biodiesel
woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel
diesel-electric locomotive
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
Da Qaidam town in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[hǎi xī měng gǔ zú zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Qinghai
as thin as a match
kindling (to light a fire)
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile
to spout nonsense
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (idiom)
firewood
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt
match (for lighting fire)
reed stem
diesel engine
honewort
diesel fuel
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea