柴

See also: 茈

Translingual

Han character

柴 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜心木 (YPD), four-corner 2190₄, composition ⿱此木)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 521, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14664
• Dae Jaweon: page 909, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1197, character 11
• Unihan data for U+67F4

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Chinese

trad.		柴
simp. #		柴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 柴
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (此) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
些	*saːls, *sjaːl, *seːs
跐	*ʔsreːʔ, *ʔseʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ʔsreʔ
柴	*zreː
祡	*zreː
茈	*zreː, *ʔseʔ, *ze
眦	*zreːs
砦	*zraːds
寨	*zraːds, *slɯːɡ
啙	*ʔseː, *zeːʔ, *ʔseʔ
泚	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ
玼	*sʰeːʔ, *sʰeʔ, *ze
皉	*sʰeːʔ
鮆	*zeːʔ, *ʔse
眥	*zeːs, *zes
貲	*ʔse
髭	*ʔse
頾	*ʔse
訾	*ʔse, *ʔseʔ
鴜	*ʔse, *ze
鈭	*ʔse, *sʰe
姕	*ʔse, *sʰe, *ze
觜	*ʔse, *ʔse, *ʔseʔ
紫	*ʔseʔ
訿	*ʔseʔ
呰	*ʔseʔ
嘴	*ʔseʔ
雌	*sʰe
此	*sʰeʔ
佌	*sʰeʔ, *seʔ
庛	*sʰes
疵	*ze
骴	*ze, *zes
胔	*ze, *zes
飺	*ze
齜	*ʔsre

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zreː) : phonetic 此 (OC *sʰeʔ) + semantic 木.

Etymology

Perhaps related to 槎 (OC *zraːl, *zraːlʔ, “to cut trees”) (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also Khmer ឈើ (chəə, “wood”) (ibid.).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 柴

1. faggot; bundle of sticks bound together (as fuel)
2. firewood; brushwood; wood
3. ^† to burn firewood and worship heaven
4. ^† fuzz stick; old wood
5. (dialectal) bony
6. (dialectal) lean; hard to chew
7. (Min) slow and inarticulate; dull
8. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) stringy; fibrous; hard to chew (of food)
9. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhài (zhai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhài
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhài
    • Wade–Giles: chai⁴
    • Yale: jài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jay
    • Palladius: чжай (čžaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaai⁶
    • Yale: jaaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːi̯²²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 柴

1. ^† to fence; to surround and protect with fence (made of wood)

   鹿柴  ―  Lùzhài  ―  Deer Fence, a poem by Wang Wei

2. ^† to cover; to place something over
3. ^† to stop; to block; to obstruct
4. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 寨 (zhài, “defending fence”).
5. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 寨 (zhài, “villa”).

Further reading

• “Entry #6101”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

柴

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. brushwood
2. firewood

Readings

• Go-on: ぜ (ze)
• Kan-on: さい (sai)
• Kun: しば (shiba, 柴)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
柴
しば Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

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Noun

柴(しば) • (shiba) 

1. brushwood, firewood

Proper noun

柴(しば) • (Shiba) 

1. a surname

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Korean

Hanja

柴 • (si, chae) (hangeul 시, 채, revised si, chae, McCune–Reischauer si, ch'ae, Yale si, chay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 柴 (sài, thầy, thài, thày, sầy, xầy)

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