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Kanji Detail for 柱 - "pillar, column, support"

柱

  • Meaning

    柱 means "pillar, column, support."

    1. Pillar - A vertical support structure.

    2. Column - An upright post.

    3. Support - The central element; the mainstay.

  • Words using 柱

    • 支柱 しちゅう Listen prop; stay; support
    • 電柱 でんちゅう Listen utility pole; power pole; telephone pole
    • 大黒柱 だいこくばしら Listen central pillar (of a building); mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family)

  • Tattoo check: 柱

    • Verified meaning: pillar, column, support
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ことじ, はしら, みはしら)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 柱

    Surnames 柱(ことじ)Listen 柱(はしら)Listen 柱(みはしら)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    pillar; post; cylinder; support

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    pillar, post; support; lean on

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    pillar; CL:根[gen1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to lean on; pillar, post, support

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

    A pillar. What supports the beams and roof. Also a pole standing on flat ground is called 柱. Ma Yuan of Later Han reached Jiaozhi and erected a bronze pillar as the boundary of Han. Important ministers are called 柱石 (pillars of stone), meaning what the nation relies on, like pillars supporting a house. Also maintaining stability in crisis is called 中流砥柱. Dizhu is a mountain name in Shan County, Henan, where the river flows around it like a pillar in midstream. | On zithers and se, what supports the strings is called 柱. One string, one bridge, which can be moved up and down to adjust string tension for tuning, colloquially called string bridges. Hence inflexible behavior is called 膠柱鼓瑟 (gluing the bridges while playing the se). From "Records of the Grand Historian, Biography of Zhao She." | To support.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    chuu(チュウ) チュウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hashira(はしら) はしら

  • Strokes

    tip

    9 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    pillar column support central count koto architecture beam construction foundation framework load-bearing mainstay mast monument pier post prop pylon stanchion structure upright vertical

Sentences including 柱

  • This is a stone pillar.

  • The engineer climbed the telephone pole.

  • He bumped his head against a post.

  • The car hit a telephone pole.

  • The pillar tilted to the right and fell.

  • He ran the car into a lamppost.

  • Tom is his family's main breadwinner.

  • The columns were made of marble.

  • They bound him to a pole.

  • A cat was sharpening its claws against a post.

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