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Kanji Detail for 柱 - "pillar, column, support"
柱
- Meaning
柱 means "pillar, column, support."
Pillar - A vertical support structure.
Column - An upright post.
Support - The central element; the mainstay.
- 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.
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Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
門の柱に打ち付けた標札に何々園とあるので、その個人の邸宅でない事がすぐ知れた。
from "Kokoro", by Natsume Sōseki, original text:Shueisha Bunko, Shueisha
ただ、所々｜丹塗の剥げた、大きな円柱に、蟋蟀が一匹とまっている。
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo
from "Rashomon", by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, original text:Chikuma Bunko, Chikuma Shobo