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電柱 (でんちゅう): telephone pole, telegraph pole, light pole — Japanese vocabulary

電柱 is read でんちゅう and means "telephone pole, telegraph pole, light pole". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

電柱

Reading
でんちゅう · denchuu
Translation
telephone pole, telegraph pole, light pole
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
でんちゅうが

Example

車は電柱にぶつかった。

くるまはでんちゅうにぶつかった。

The car hit a telephone pole.

Kanji in this word

  • 電 — electricity
  • 柱 — pillar, column

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