Illustration: A concrete utility pole rises beside a narrow residential street, carrying several overhead cables on brackets and insulators. Its base stands between a drainage channel and a house wall, with more poles continuing down the street.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

電でん柱ちゅう

denchuu

utility pole

Example sentences

彼かれは車くるまを角かどの電柱でんちゅうでこすって傷きずをつけてしまった。
He scraped his car on the utility pole at the corner.
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技師ぎしが電柱でんちゅうを上のぼった。
The engineer climbed the telephone pole.
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車くるまは電柱でんちゅうにぶつかった。
The car hit a telephone pole.
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Kanji in 電柱

電electricityOnデン
柱pillar; postOnチュウKunはしら

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