"Pillar" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 支柱 | zhī zhù | mainstay / pillar / prop / backbone |   |
| 柱子 | zhù zi | pillar / CL:根[gen1] | |
| 栋梁 | dòng liáng | ridgepole / ridgepole and beams / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state) | |
| 顶梁柱 | dǐng liáng zhù | pillar / backbone | |
| 主心骨 | zhǔ xīn gǔ | backbone / mainstay / pillar / definite view / one's own judgment | |
| 柱石 | zhù shí | pillar | |
| 台柱 | tái zhù | pillar / mainstay / star performer | |
| 柱 |  zhù | pillar / CL:根[gen1] | |
| 桓 | huán | Chinese soapberry (Sapindus mukurossi) / big / pillar (old) | |
| 桢 | zhēn | (old) privet (genus Ligustrum) / (bound form) (old) wooden support placed at the ends of a wall during construction / (fig.) mainstay / pillar / backbone | |
| 楹 | yíng | pillar | |
| 樘 | táng | pillar / door post / door or window frame / classifier for doors or windows | |
| 樘 | chěng | a pillar | |
| 柱梁 | zhù liáng | pillar | |
| 梁木 | liáng mù | beam / rafter / lintel / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state) | |
| 支柱部门 | zhī zhù bù mén | pillar | |
| 光柱 | guāng zhù | light beam / light pillar (atmospheric optics) | |
| 承重 | chéng zhòng | (usu. of a structural component of a building) to bear a load / load-bearing (wall, pillar etc) | |
| 华表 | huá biǎo | marble pillar (ornamental column in front of places, tombs) | |
| 邮筒 | yóu tǒng | mailbox / pillar box / (old) letter | |
| 炮烙 | páo lào | the hot pillar (ancient Chinese torture instrument) | |
| 枋 | fāng | Santalum album / square wooden pillar | |
| 大器晚成 | dà qì wǎn chéng | lit. it takes a long time to make a big pot (idiom) / fig. a great talent matures slowly / in the fullness of time a major figure will develop into a pillar of the state / Rome wasn't built in a day | |
| 雕楹碧槛 | diāo yíng bì kǎn | carved pillar, jade doorsill (idiom) / heavily decorated environment | |
| 一柱擎天 | yī zhù qíng tiān | lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders | |
| 拱柱 | gǒng zhù | pillar of a vault | |
| 梲 | zhuó | club (weapon) / small pillar | |
| 拱墩 | gǒng dūn | pillar of a vault | |
| 榰 | zhī | base of pillar / prop | |
| 钢柱 | gāng zhù | iron pillar / iron rod | |
| 第四支柱部门 | dì sì zhī zhù bù mén | Pillar IV | |
| 业绩支柱 | yè jì zhī zhù | performance pillar | |
| 界石地点评估勘 | pillar site assessment survey / emplacement survey | | |
| 界石安置勘查 | pillar site assessment survey / emplacement survey | | |
| 第五支柱 | 5th Pillar | | |
| 太阳光柱 | tài yáng guāng zhù | solar pillar / sun pillar (atmospheric optics) | |
| 经幢 | jīng chuáng | Buddhist stone pillar | |
| 趸柱 | dǔn zhù | main supporting pillar | |
| 炮烙 | páo luò | form of torture said to have been used by King Zhou of Shang 商紂王|商纣王[Shang1 Zhou4 Wang2] in which the victim was forced onto a bronze pillar heated by a fire | |
