柱 – pillar, post, cylinder

9 strokesTaught in grade 3#1119 in newspaper frequencyN2 vocabulary

The kanji 柱 means pillar, post, cylinder, support. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is チュウ (chuu); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is はしら (hashira). It is written with 9 strokes, under radical 木 (no. 75).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	チュウ	chuu
Kun’yomi	はしら	hashira

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 木 (Kangxi radical 75). Components: 王・木・丶.

Words using 柱

電柱でんちゅうutility pole

Example sentences

彼は車を電柱にぶつけた。

He ran the car into a lamppost.

Tatoeba #104630

Kanji with the same radical

本東業来機権査案村果格検校構木条

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