coffin; CL:具[ju4],口[kou3]

material; timber; ability; aptitude; a capable individual; coffin (old)

wood

idiot

equipment; material

(food) ingredient

source material (in literature and art)

subject matter

teaching material; CL:本[ben3]

medicinal ingredient

(literary) (of a tree) useless for lumber; variant of 不才[bu4 cai2]

principal or main material (engineering)

variant of 人才[ren2 cai2]

to collect material

extruded profile

substrate

medium (art) (Tw)

coffin

capability; capable person

useless person; good-for-nothing

building materials

pith; central core (of tree)

to make sth of oneself; to become a person who is worthy of respect; (of a tree) to grow to full size; to become useful for timber

sheet materials (wood, metal, plastic etc)

bar; rod

outstandingly talented person

consumables; to consume raw materials

good timber; sound material; fig. able person; sound chap

sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)

steel (as raw material); steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc

talent

(forestry) to log; to skid; to yard

great talent; rare capability; person of outstanding ability

worthless; good-for-nothing

plywood

(of a person) short in stature

negative example; sth that teaches one what not to do

log

to draw on local resources; using materials at hand

person of limited capacity

Yelü Chucai (1190-1244), Khitan statesman and advisor to Genghis Khan and Ögödei Khan, known for convincing the Mongols to tax the conquered population of the north China plains rather than slaughter it