支柱 (zhīzhù) means Pillar. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他是这个家庭的 支柱 。
Tā shì zhège jiātíng de zhīzhù.
He is the mainstay of this family.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支柱
旅游业是当地的 支柱 产业。
Lǚyóuyè shì dāngdì de zhīzhù chǎnyè.
Tourism is the area's pillar industry.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 支柱
旅游已经成为当地的 支柱 产业。
Lǚyóu yǐjīng chéngwéi dāngdì de zhīzhù chǎnyè.
Tourism has become the pillar industry of the area.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 产业
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Questions about 支柱
How is 支柱 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 支柱 (zhīzhù, "Pillar"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 支柱 an HSK word?
Yes — 支柱 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 支柱?
The dictionary page for 支柱 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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