柱 zhù
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
柱子
zhùzi
pillar; post; column
Characters in this word
子 zi
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 子 — son, child
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 那根承重柱子表面出现裂缝，工程师要求立即暂停装修。 Nà gēn chéngzhòng zhùzi biǎomiàn chūxiàn lièfèng, gōngchéngshī yāoqiú lìjí zàntíng zhuāngxiū. Cracks appeared on the surface of that load-bearing pillar, so the engineer demanded an immediate halt to the renovation.
- 这座古老的寺庙有十几根红色的木柱子，非常壮观。 Zhè zuò gǔlǎo de sìmiào yǒu shíjǐ gēn hóngsè de mù zhùzi, fēicháng zhuàngguān. This ancient temple has more than a dozen red wooden pillars; it is truly magnificent.
- 他小心地绕过工地上那根水泥柱子，继续往前走。 Tā xiǎoxīn de ràoguò gōngdì shàng nà gēn shuǐní zhùzi, jìxù wǎng qián zǒu. He carefully went around that concrete pillar at the construction site and kept walking ahead.