柱 (zhù)
pillar; post; column
How 柱 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 柱
- Simplified
- 柱 (unchanged)
Common words using 柱
- 支柱 zhīzhù
- mainstay; pillar; prop
- 冰柱 bīngzhù
- icicle
- 圓柱形 yuánzhùxíng
- cylindrical
- 柱子 zhùzi
- pillar; CL:根[gen1]
- 水柱 shuǐzhù
- stream or column of water
- 燈柱 dēngzhù
- lamppost
- 石柱 shízhù
- Shizhu Tujia autonomous county, Chongqing
- 脊柱 jǐzhù
- spinal column; columna vertebralis
- 門柱 ménzhù
- doorpost
- 頂梁柱 dǐngliángzhù
- pillar; backbone
- 中流砥柱 zhōngliúdǐzhù
- mainstay; cornerstone; tower of strength
- 偷梁換柱 tōuliánghuànzhù
- lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column; to replace the original with a fake; to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)
柱 in a sentence
這根柱子支撐著整個屋頂。
Zhè gēn zhùzi zhīchēng zhe zhěnggè wūdǐng.
“This pillar supports the entire roof.”
How common is 柱?
柱 is the 1,689th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.7% of all running text.
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