1 to hack

2 to chop

3 to split open

4 (of lightning) to strike

1 surname Chai

1 match (for lighting fire)

2 classifier: 根 gēn

3 classifier: 盒 hé

1 the splits (move in dancing)

2 to do the splits

3 Taiwan pr. [pǐ chā]

1 to chop firewood

2 to split logs

1 a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)

1 damaged by groundless slander (idiom)

1 lit. splitting the head and covering the face (idiom); fig. pelting (with rain etc)

2 showering down

1 woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel

2 fig. my humble house

1 lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile

2 fig. consuming passion between lovers