Kanji Detail for 柴 - "brushwood, firewood, humble"

柴

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
柴 means "brushwood, firewood, humble."
1. Brushwood - Small trees growing wild; bundled twigs.
2. Ritual - A ceremony of burning brushwood to worship heaven.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

brush; firewood

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

firewood, faggots, fuel

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

surname Chai

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

firewood, faggots, fuel; surname

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Small scattered wood used for cooking fuel. | Burning firewood in sacrifice is called 柴. From "Book of Documents": "At Mount Tai, he performed the 柴 sacrifice and made offerings in order to the mountains and rivers." Meaning piling firewood and burning it during sacrifice. Now dried grass for fuel is also called 柴. Such as 稻柴 (rice straw), 茅柴 (thatch). Also a gate made of woven grass is called 柴門.
Onyomi

sai(さい)
Kunyomi

fusa.gu(ふさぐ)

shiba(しば)
Strokes

10 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords
brushwood firewood kindling twigs branches fuel humble natural wild forest woods bundle fagot ritual sacrifice worship simple rustic rural gathering