柱

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

• 𭈴, 㴤, 嵀, 𥯸, 𭝦, 𰘺

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *toʔ, *doʔ): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *duːŋ (“post; column”) (STEDT). Cognate with 拄 (OC *toʔ, “to support”), as well as Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuŋ-I, *tun-II (“to erect; post; vertical”), Proto-Central Naga *tuŋ (“stem; trunk; post; tree”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

柱

1. pillar; post; column (Classifier: 條／条 c)
2. column-shaped thing
3. (music) bridge (on a string instrument, such as a guzheng)
4. (Hong Kong Cantonese) flats of the same layout on different floors
   • 2017 January 21, “柏傲灣400伙即日沽清”, in 文匯報 [Wen Wei Po]‎^[2], page A06:

     昨日推售單位中，2B座的A、C及F室「三柱」的一房及兩房間隔率先沽清。 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     昨日推售单位中，2B座的A、C及F室「三柱」的一房及两房间隔率先沽清。 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     zok⁶ jat⁶ teoi¹ sau⁶ daan¹ wai^6-2 zung¹, ji⁶ bi¹ zo⁶ dik¹ ei¹, si¹ kap⁶ ef¹ sat¹ “saam¹ cyu⁵” dik¹ jat¹ fong^4-2 kap⁶ loeng⁵ fong^4-2 gaan³ gaak³ seot¹ sin¹ gu¹ cing¹. [Jyutping]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to stand tall and erect
6. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) stiff
7. a surname

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same word as 拄?”)

柱

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to support; to lean on
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to block; to obstruct

柱

1. only used in 柱夫

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pillar
2. (geometry) prism, cylinder

• Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←ぢゆう (dyuu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kun: はしら (hashira, 柱, Jōyō)^{←はしら (fasira, 柱, historical)}、ことじ (kotoji)、ささえる (sasaeru)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pasira or *parira. Cognate with Okinawan 柱 (hāya).

• (Tokyo) はしら [hàshíráꜜ] (Odaka – [3])^[4][5]
• (Tokyo) はしら [hàshírá] (Heiban – [0])^[4][5]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠ɕiɾa̠]

柱(はしら) • (hashira) 

1. pillar

柱(はしら) • (-hashira) 

1. gods, spirits, worshipped entity.
2. spirit tablets, cremation remains
3. human remains counted by the deceased person
   • 2025 August 10 (last accessed), 川田龍平 [Ryūhei Kawada], quotee, “第211回国会　参議院　厚生労働委員会　第19号　令和5年6月8日 [211th Diet, House of Councillors, Committee on Health, Labor and Welfare, No. 19, June 8, 2023]”, in 国会会議録検索システム [Diet Proceedings Search System]‎^[3], 国立国会図書館 [National Diet Library]:

     戦没者の遺骨収集の状況について、厚生労働省の資料によると、令和五年四月末の時点で、さきの大戦中海外で亡くなられた約二百四十万柱、そのうち、御遺骨を収容できたのは約百二十八万柱、いまだ収容できない御遺骨は約百十二万柱あるとされています。

     Senbotsusha no ikotsu shūshū no jōkyō ni tsuite, Kōsei Rōdō-shō no shiryō ni yoru to, reiwa go nen shi gatsu matsu no jiten de, saki no taisen-chū kaigai de naku narareta yaku ni hyaku yon jū man-bashira, sono uchi, go-ikotsu o shūyō dekita no wa yaku hyaku ni jū hachi man-bashira, imada shūyō dekinai go-ikotsu wa yaku hyaku jū ni man-bashira aru to sarete imasu.

     Regarding the status of collecting the remains of war dead, according to documents from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, as of the end of April 2023, approximately 2.4 million people died overseas during the last war, of which the remains of approximately 1.28 million have been recovered, while the remains of approximately 1.12 million have yet to be recovered.

柱(ちゅう) • (-chū) ^{←ちゆう (-tyuu)?}

1. (geometry) prism, cylinder

• 円(えん)柱(ちゅう) (enchū, “cylinder”)
• 角(かく)柱(ちゅう) (kakuchū, “polygonal prism”)
• 三(さん)角(かく)柱(ちゅう) (sankakuchū, “triangular prism”)
• 反(はん)角(かく)柱(ちゅう) (hankakuchū)

• “柱”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[4] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

From Middle Chinese 柱 (MC drjuX). Recorded as Middle Korean 듀〮 (tywú) (Yale: tyu) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

柱 (eumhun 기둥 주 (gidung ju))

1. hanja form^? of 주 (“pillar”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [5]

柱: Hán Nôm readings: trụ

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