Illustration: In a compact apartment kitchen, a mother still wearing her work uniform sets a full grocery basket beside the family’s rice cooker. Her open pay envelope and household cash tray sit within reach as she divides money into plain envelopes.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大だい黒こく柱ばしら

daikokubashira

mainstay, breadwinner

Example sentences

  1. トムは一家いっかの大黒柱だいこくばしらです。

    Tom is his family’s main breadwinner.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムはこの家いえの大黒柱だいこくばしらです。

    Tom is the breadwinner in this family.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 住友家すみともかにとり総理事そうりじあるいは最高幹部さいこうかんぶの人事じんじは重大じゅうだいであり、まして宰平さいへいは大黒柱だいこくばしら的存在てきそんざいであった。

    For the Sumitomo family, personnel affairs for the soriji and other top management was very important and, in addition, Saihei was like a central pillar.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 大黒柱

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 黒blackOnコクKunくろ・くろずむ・くろい
  • 柱pillar; postOnチュウKunはしら

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