材 cái
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cái
noun
material; stuff
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '材') -
cái
noun
timber
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '材') -
cái
noun
talent
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '材')
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- 武器级别材料(武器級別材料) weapons-grade material
- 材积(材積) volume (of timber)
- 边材(邊材) sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)
- 干材(幹材) ability; capable
- 心材 pith; central core (of tree)
- 人材 a talented person; a distinguished person
- 良材 good timber; sound material; fig. able person; sound chap
- 不材 untalented; I; me (humble)
- 型材 extruded profile
- 不成材 worthless; good-for-nothing
- 集材 logging
- 食材 (food) ingredient
- 原材料 raw materials
- 教材 teaching material
- 材轻德薄(材輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
- 视听材料(視聽材料) evidence of material seen and heard; oral testimony
- 高材 great talent; rare capability; person of outstanding ability
- 材料 material; data; ingredient
- 隔热材料(隔熱材料) insulation
- 棒材 bar; rod
- 就地取材 to draw on local resources; using materials at hand
- 庸材 a mediocre person
- 钢材(鋼材) steel
- 翘材(翹材) outstanding talent
- 蠢材 idiot
- 材料学(材料學) material science
- 耗材 consumables; to consume raw materials
- 主材 principal or main material
- 梓材 fine timber ; Fine Timber
- 棺材 coffin
- 可裂变材料(可裂變材料) fissile material
- 参考材料(參考材料) reference material; source documents
- 建筑材料(建築材料) building materials
- 媒材 medium
- 大材小用 using a talented person in an insignificant position; a sledgehammer to crack a nut
- 斗筲之材 person of limited capacity
- 材料科学(材料科學) materials science
- 多层材(多層材) plywood
- 高材生 student of great ability
- 成材 to make something of oneself; to become a person who is worthy of respect; (of a tree) to grow to full size; to become useful for timber
- 进棺材(進棺材) to go into a coffin; to die
- 木材 timber; wood
- 测试和材料协会(測試和材料協會) American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- 因材施教 to teach in line with the student's ability
- 器材 equipment; material
- 放射性材料 radioactive material
- 放射性发光材料(放射性發光材料) radiophosphor
- 取材 to collect material
- 量材录用(量材錄用) judge ability and use a person accordingly
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- 卷一百四十六 列傳第三十三: 耶律楚材 粘合重山 楊惟中 Volume 146 Biographies 33: Yelü Chucai, Zhanhezhongshan, Yang Weizhong History of Yuan 元史 — count: 80
- 卷一百九十四 列傳第八十二 喬宇 孫交 林俊 金獻民 秦金 趙璜 鄒文盛 梁材 劉麟 蔣瑤 王廷相 Volume 194 Biographies 82: Qiao Yu, Sun Jiao, Lin Jun, Jin Xianmin, Qin Jin, Zhao Huang, Zou Wencheng, Liang Cai, Liu Lin, Jiang Yao, Wang Tingxiang History of Ming 明史 — count: 35
- 卷二百二十七 列傳第一百十五 龐尚鵬 宋儀望 張岳 李材 陸樹德 蕭廩 賈三近 李頤 朱鴻謨 蕭彥 孫維城 謝杰 郭惟賢 萬象春 鍾化民 吳達可 Volume 227 Biographies 115: Pang Shangpeng, Song Yiwang, Zhang Yue, Li Cai, Lu Shude, Xiao Lin, Jia Sanjin, Li Yi, Zhu Hongmo, Xiao Yan, Sun Weicheng, Xie Jie, Guo Weixian, Wan Xiangchun, Zhong Huamin, Wu Dake History of Ming 明史 — count: 26
- 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 17
- 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 14
- 卷八十六 何武王嘉師丹傳 Volume 86: He Wu, Wang Jia and Shi Dan Book of Han 漢書 — count: 13
- 卷一百六十 志第一百十三 選舉六 Volume 160 Treatises 113: Selection and appointment of Officials 6 History of Song 宋史 — count: 12
- 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12
- 卷二百四十二 列傳第一百三十 陳邦瞻 畢懋康 蕭近高 白瑜 程紹 翟鳳翀 洪文衡 陳伯友 董應舉 林材 朱吾弼 張光前 Volume 242 Biographies 130: Chen Bangzhan, Bi MaoKang, Xiao Jingao, Bai Yu, Cheng Shao, Di Fengchong, Hong Wenheng, Chen Boyou, Dong Yingju, Lin Cai, Zhu Wubi, Zhang Guangqian History of Ming 明史 — count: 11
- 卷一百九十七 志第一百五十 兵十一 Volume 197 Treatises 150: Military 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 11
Collocations
- 五材 (五材) 天生五材 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 5
- 三材 (三材) 斬三材必以其時 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 冬官考工記 第六 6. Office of Winter and Inspection Records — count: 5
- 六材 (六材) 典制六材 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮下》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 2 — count: 5
- 材木 (材木) 材木不可勝用也 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王上 King Hui of Liang I — count: 5
- 论材 (論材) 而欲論材審用 — Guanzi 管子, 七法第六 Chapter 6: Seven Methods — count: 4
- 疏材 (疏材) 聚斂疏材 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 4
- 精材 (精材) 求天下之精材 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 4
- 群材 (群材) 群材乃植 — Guanzi 管子, 問第二十四 Chapter 24: Asking about Position — count: 3
- 贤材 (賢材) 任官惟賢材 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 咸有一德 Shang Shu - Common Possession of Pure Virtue — count: 3
- 遂材 (遂材) 當遂材木不能盡內 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — count: 3