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木柴

mù chái

2-character word

What 木柴 means

1. firewood

The characters in 木柴

• 木mù(bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden
• 柴cháifirewood; lean (of meat); thin (of a person)

Example sentences

• 再往火里添些木柴。
  Zài wǎng huǒ lǐ tiān xiē mùchái.
  Put some more wood on the fire.
• 在北方的原始部落中，也存在着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。
  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.