杖

Meaning

杖 centers on a long stick used for support or as a tool: a staff or a cane.

• 杖つえ
  N1

  cane; walking stick; staff; wand

• 松葉杖まつばづえ

  crutch; crutches

• 虎杖いたどり

  Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica); flowering bamboo

• 頬杖ほおづえ

  resting one's chin in one's hands

• 錫杖しゃくじょう

  khakkhara (staff topped with metal rings traditionally carried by monks); pewter staff

• アスクレピオスの杖アスクレピオスのつえ

  rod of Asclepius

• 仕込み杖しこみづえ

  swordstick; sword cane; loaded cane

• 側杖そばづえ

  blow received by a bystander; getting dragged in to someone else's fight

• 卯杖うづえ

  tree branch used as a charm against evil

• 宝玉と勺杖ほうぎょくとしゃくじょう

  Orb and Sceptre (march by Sir William Walton)

• 手杖しゅじょう

  staff (esp. one used by a monk, e.g. as a walking stick during a pilgrimage)

• 振り杖ふりじょう

  flail with a retractable iron weight and chain

• 撞木杖しゅもくづえ

  crutches

• 方杖ほうづえ

  brace (in construction); angle brace

• 杖じょう

  public caning (60-100 strokes; second least severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

• 杖とも柱とも頼むつえともはしらともたのむ

  to count on someone as the only support

• 杖に縋るとも人に縋るなつえにすがるともひとにすがるな

  don't be a burden to others; lean on your cane, but don't lean on others

• 杖をつくつえをつく

  to walk with a cane

• 杖を携えるつえをたずさえる

  to carry a cane

• 杖柱つえはしら

  person upon whom one relies

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