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柱

柱

Translingual

Han character

柱 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木卜土 (DYG), four-corner 40914, composition ⿰木主)

References

  • KangXi: page 520, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14660
  • Dae Jaweon: page 908, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1188, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+67F1

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 柱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (主) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
飳 *tʰoːʔ
妵 *tʰoːʔ
黈 *tʰoːʔ
蘣 *tʰoːʔ
罜 *doːɡ, *tjos
拄 *toʔ
柱 *toʔ, *doʔ
駐 *tos
註 *tos, *tjos
鉒 *tos
軴 *tos
住 *tos, *dos
跓 *doʔ
嵀 *doʔ
主 *tjoʔ
麈 *tjoʔ
宔 *tjoʔ
炷 *tjoʔ, *tjos
注 *tjos
疰 *tjos
蛀 *tjos
霔 *tjos

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 柱
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
/t͡su⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂu²¹/
Qingdao /tʃu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂu³¹²/
Xi'an /p͡fu⁴⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂu¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fu¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂu²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡su¹³/
Guiyang /t͡su²¹³/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂu²¹²/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂu⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡su⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sz̩ʷ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡su⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡zz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy³⁵/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰy²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕy¹¹/
Xiangtan /d͡ʑy²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰu⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /tʃʰu²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sʰy²³/
Nanning /t͡sʰy²⁴/
Hong Kong /t͡sʰy¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡su²²/
/tʰiau²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tʰiɛu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tʰiu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /tʰiau³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tu³³/
/hiau³³/
Rime
Character 柱 柱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 直主切 知庾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨoX/ /ʈɨoX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖioX/ /ʈioX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡioX/ /ȶioX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖuə̆X/ /ʈuə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȡioX/ /ȶioX/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭuX/ /ȶĭuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯uX/ /ȶi̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhù zhǔ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 柱
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjuX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-t<r>oʔ/
English pillar

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 柱 柱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17608 17614
Phonetic
component		 主 主
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 拄 柱
Old
Chinese		 /*toʔ/ /*doʔ/

Definitions

柱

  1. pillar, post
  2. support
  3. lean on

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

柱

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

Kanji in this term
柱
はしら
Grade: 3
kun'yomi

柱 ‎(hiragana はしら, romaji hashira)

  1. pillar

Counter

柱 ‎(hiragana はしら, romaji -hashira)

  1. gods, spirits, worshipped entity.
  2. spirit tablets, cremation remains.

Korean

Hanja

柱 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

柱 (trụ)

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