柴
cháiChái HSK5

firewood

柴 chái frequency
firewood noun
wood used as fuel

他在后院堆了很多柴。

tā zài hòu​yuàn duī le hěn​duō chái.

He piled up a lot of firewood in the backyard.

lean adjective
tough and stringy meat lacking fat

这块牛肉太柴了，口感不好。

zhè kuài niú​ròu tài chái le, kǒu​gǎn bù hǎo.

This beef is too tough and stringy; it doesn't taste good.

thin noun
very skinny or bony in physical appearance

他长得很柴，像个竹竿似的。

tā zhǎng de hěn chái, xiàng gè zhú​gān shì​de.

He is very skinny, just like a beanpole.

柴 Chái
Chai proper name
surname Chai

柴先生是我们的新邻居。

Chái xiān​sheng shì wǒ​men de xīn lín​jū.

Mr. Chai is our new neighbor.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,981st most common 37.6 per million
Movie subtitles
2,258th most common 12.8 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.46 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
10.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+67F4

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)