柴chái
firewood, faggots, fuel; surname. 10 strokes, radical 木, first met in HSK 5.
Pinyin cháiStrokes 10Radical 木Band HSK 5Words 1
How to write 柴
Strokes 1–6 write 此, then strokes 7–10 write 木.
Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.
Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 柴 · the stroke-order rules
What 柴 is made of
此 (cǐ, this) and 木 (mù, tree).
木 carries the meaning — wood — and 此 carries the sound.
Words that use 柴
| 火柴 | matchstick 指擦划后能引燃的小木棒 他在壁炉前划亮一根火柴。He struck a match in front of the fireplace. Lesson 435, 生趣盎然 · 温故知新与智汇前沿 · Wisdom of Heritage & Frontiers of Innovation |
Characters that share the sound part 此
Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.
More characters with the radical 木
All 67 of them, and what the radical means, on the 木 radical page.