Example sentences
zuò坐zhè这bǎ把yǐ椅zi子。
Sit in this chair.
yǐ椅zi子huài坏le了。
The chair is broken.
The story behind the character
椅
木 (wood) plus 奇 (sound). It was a kind of tree, the 椅 tree, and only later got borrowed for the wooden seat. So "chair" began as a tree.