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竿

さお

rod; pole (e.g. for drying laundry)

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Examples

  1. 庭の竿に洗濯物を干した。

    にわのさおにせんたくものをほした。

    I hung the washing on the pole in the garden.

  2. 父は新しい釣り竿を買った。

    ちちはあたらしいつりざおをかった。

    My father bought a new fishing rod.

  3. 川の深さを竿で測りながら、舟を進めた。

    かわのふかさをさおではかりながら、ふねをすすめた。

    He poled the boat forward, checking the depth of the river with the pole as he went.

Common patterns

物干し竿
a laundry pole
釣り竿
a fishing rod
竿で干す
to dry (laundry) on a pole

Memory tip

Any long thin pole used as a tool: laundry pole, fishing rod, punt pole. In compounds it voices to -ざお (釣り竿, 物干し竿), and the bamboo radical on top shows what it is made of.

Kanji in this word

  • 竿Not in the N5–N1 kanji lists

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