木材
mù cái
Pinyin

Definition

木材
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mù cái
  1. wood

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

木
Mù
  1. 1 surname Mu
器材
qì cái
  1. 1 equipment
  2. 2 material
教材
jiào cái
  1. 1 teaching material
  2. 2 CL:本[běn]
有木有
yǒu mù yǒu
  1. 1 (slang) come on, you can't deny it!
  2. 2 don't you think so?!
  3. 3 (melodramatic form of 有沒有|有没有)
木偶
mù ǒu
  1. 1 puppet
木星
Mù xīng
  1. 1 Jupiter (planet)
木瓜
mù guā
  1. 1 papaya (Carica papaya)
  2. 2 genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae
  3. 3 Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
木耳
mù ěr
  1. 1 edible tree fungus
  2. 2 CL:朵[duǒ]
木质
mù zhì
  1. 1 wooden
木头
mù tou
  1. 1 slow-witted
  2. 2 blockhead
  3. 3 log (of wood, timber etc)
  4. 4 CL:塊|块[kuài],根[gēn]
木马
mù mǎ
  1. 1 wooden horse
  2. 2 rocking horse
  3. 3 vaulting horse (gymnastics)
  4. 4 trojan horse (computing)
材料
cái liào
  1. 1 material
  2. 2 data
  3. 3 makings
  4. 4 stuff
  5. 5 CL:個|个[gè],種|种[zhǒng]
材质
cái zhì
  1. 1 texture of timber
  2. 2 quality of material
  3. 3 material (that sth is made of)
棺材
guān cai
  1. 1 coffin
  2. 2 CL:具[jù],口[kǒu]
树木
shù mù
  1. 1 tree
乌鲁木齐
Wū lǔ mù qí
  1. 1 Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China
积木
jī mù
  1. 1 toy building blocks
素材
sù cái
  1. 1 source material (in literature and art)
花木兰
Huā Mù lán
  1. 1 Hua Mulan, legendary woman warrior (c. fifth century), Northern dynasties folk hero recorded in Sui and Tang literature
身材
shēn cái
  1. 1 stature
  2. 2 build (height and weight)
  3. 3 figure

Idioms (20)

一木难支
yī mù nán zhī
  1. 1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one is helpless alone
不见棺材不落泪
bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi
  1. 1 lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥
nǐ zǒu nǐ de Yáng guān Dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
  1. 1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
  3. 3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
刚毅木讷
gāng yì mù nè
  1. 1 resolute and taciturn (idiom)
十年树木，百年树人
shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
  1. 1 It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
呆若木鸡
dāi ruò mù jī
  1. 1 lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
单丝不成线，独木不成林
dān sī bù chéng xiàn , dú mù bù chéng lín
  1. 1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)
因材施教
yīn cái shī jiào
  1. 1 (idiom) to teach in line with the student's ability
土木形骸
tǔ mù xíng hái
  1. 1 earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
土牛木马
tǔ niú mù mǎ
  1. 1 clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
  2. 2 worthless object
大材小用
dà cái xiǎo yòng
  1. 1 using a talented person in an insignificant position (idiom)
  2. 2 a sledgehammer to crack a nut
守株待兔，缘木求鱼
shǒu zhū dài tù , yuán mù qiú yú
  1. 1 to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
山颓木坏
shān tuí mù huài
  1. 1 lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined
  2. 2 a great sage has died (idiom)
木人石心
mù rén shí xīn
  1. 1 lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. heartless
木已成舟
mù yǐ chéng zhōu
  1. 1 lit. the timber has been turned into a boat already (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. what is done cannot be undone
木讷寡言
mù nè guǎ yán
  1. 1 honest and unaffected but not talkative (idiom)
枯木逢春
kū mù féng chūn
  1. 1 lit. the spring comes upon a withered tree (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to get a new lease on life
  3. 3 to be revived
  4. 4 (of a difficult situation) to suddenly improve
独木不成林
dú mù bù chéng lín
  1. 1 a lone tree does not make a forest (idiom)
  2. 2 one cannot accomplish much on one's own
移花接木
yí huā jiē mù
  1. 1 lit. to graft flowers onto a tree
  2. 2 to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another (idiom)

Sample Sentences

现在电蒸电烤香菇效率高、卖相好，每烘干一吨香菇节约成本一百八十五点四元，保守算一年可节约木材二点二万吨，每公斤香菇价格还能提升二十多元。
xiànzài diàn zhēng diàn kǎo xiānggū xiàolu:4 gāo 、màixiàng hǎo ，měi hōnggān yī dūn xiānggū jiéyuē chéngběn yībǎi bāshí wǔ diǎn sì yuán ，bǎoshǒu suàn yī nián kě jiéyuē mùcái èr diǎn èr wàn dūn ，měi gōngjīn xiānggū jiàgé huán néng tíshēng èrshí duō yuán 。
Nowadays, electric oven-baked mushrooms sell well and the process is highly efficient. Each drying of one ton of mushrooms saves 185.4 yuan. 22,000 tons of wood are also saved in one year, and the price per kilogram of mushrooms can be increased by over twenty yuan.
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湖旁边那个规模很大的，是木材结构的过山车。
hú pángbiān nàge guīmó hěn dà de ，shì mùcái jiégòu de guòshānchē 。
The large scale one beside the lake is a roller coaster constructed of wood.
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