You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Badger (zhì) 豺 Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 1200, Entry 01 Pronounced chai Book of Erya (Erya), Interpretation of Beasts: The chai is a creature with dog-like feet. Commentary: The chai is a greedy and cruel beast. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): A type of wolf. Yan Shigu commentary on the Expedient Lessons (Jijiu Pian): The chai has thick fur and dog-like feet. Correct Meaning Thoroughly Compiled (Zhengzitong): The chai has a long tail, white cheeks, and is yellow in color. Lu Dian states that popular parlance says as thin as a chai. Chai implies firewood (chai); the body of a chai is thin and slender, hence it is called chai-ji (thorny/thin like firewood). Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Throw them to the chai and tigers. Commentary: Chai and tigers eat humans. Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances: In the third month of autumn, the chai sacrifices the beasts it catches. Book of Proper Character Forms (Ganlu Zishu): Also written in a variant form (chái).