A wooden or metal stake driven into the ground, used for marking boundaries, supporting structures, or as a foundation pile.
Several stakes had been driven into the ground at the construction site.
We put up stakes to mark the boundary.
Standard kanji spelling.
Rare variant using 杙, which is not a jōyō kanji.
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Compound of 棒 (bō, 'rod, pole') and 杭 (kui, 'stake, pile'). The reading ぼうぐい is a straightforward combination.