surname Chai

firewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)

plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)

diesel fuel

(Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing; loser

firewood

(idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated

to chop firewood; to split logs

chopped wood; firewood

kindling (to light a fire)

to chop firewood; to gather firewood

see 柴桑區|柴桑区[Chai2 sang1 Qu1]

shiba inu (Japanese dog breed)

Shibata (Japanese surname and place name)

plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)

Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense); root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)

firewood

firewood

simple and crude cart (or chariot)

lit. woodcutter's family; humble background; poor family background

a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs

a small-sized Shiba Inu dog (often marketed as "Mame Shiba", not a recognized breed)

honewort; Cryptotaenia japonica

Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

kindling

Chaisang, a district of Jiujiang City 九江市[Jiu3 jiang1 Shi4], Jiangxi

diesel engine

(dialect) country girl; 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.

katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)

stick figure; stick person

matches made of cardboard

reed stem; (fig.) extremely skinny person

(idiom) explosive mutual passion; blaze of passion (esp. between lovers)

diesel-electric locomotive

(lit.) firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom); (fig.) life's daily necessities

woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel; fig. my humble house

to spout nonsense; to bullshit endlessly

see 乾柴烈火|干柴烈火[gan1 chai2 lie4 huo3]

biodiesel

Brazzaville, capital of Congo

Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer

diesel engine

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin

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.

Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州[Hai3 xi1 Meng3 gu3 zu2 Zang4 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai

lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom); fig. time invested in preparations is not lost; a beard well lathered is half shaved

(lit.) when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb); (fig.) the more people, the more strength

(lit.) firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea; (fig.) life's daily necessities