1 surname Chai

1 match (for lighting fire)

2 classifier: 根 gēn

3 classifier: 盒 hé

1 to chop firewood

2 to split logs

1 (Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing

2 loser

1 Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer

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

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

1 While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.

1 when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (idiom)

2 the more people, the more strength