CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

木柴

mùchái

firewood

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

firewood

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 木柴 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 木柴 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

再往火里添些木柴。zài wǎng huǒ lǐ tiān xiē mù chái。

Put some more wood on the fire.

在北方的原始部落中，也存在著一种更野蛮的庆祝形式：他们点燃巨大的木柴，以纪念奥丁和托尔，并向祂们献祭人和牲畜。德鲁伊王子随后用金色镰刀从神圣的橡树上割下槲寄生。zài běi fāng de yuán shǐ bù luò zhōng， yě cún zài zhù yī zhǒng gèng yě mán de qìng zhù xíng shì： tā men diǎn rán jù dà de mù chái， yǐ jì niàn ào dīng hé tuō ěr， bìng xiàng tā men xiàn jì rén hé shēng chù。 dé lǔ yī wáng zǐ suí hòu yòng jīn sè lián dāo cóng shén shèng de xiàng shù shàng gē xià hú jì shēng。

A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids.

由于少了木柴，烟囱的火苗已经开始后继无力了。yóu yú shǎo le mù chái， yān cōng de huǒ miáo yǐ jīng kāi shǐ hòu jì wú lì le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 木柴.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 木柴.

Directly before

了木柴1
添些木柴1
的木柴1

Directly after

No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 木柴

What does 木柴 mean in Chinese?

木柴 (mùchái) means firewood.

How do you pronounce 木柴?

木柴 is pronounced mùchái.

Is 木柴 an HSK word?

木柴 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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