utility pole; telephone pole
A pole that carries telephone or electric lines. In modern usage, often refers to any roadside utility pole.
電信柱にカラスがとまっている。
A crow is perched on the utility pole.
電信柱 is an older, more colloquial term for the same utility pole that 電柱 refers to.
Standard kanji spelling.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; rarely used in practice.
Compound of 電信 (telegraph/telecommunications) and 柱 (pillar/pole). The term reflects the historical use of such poles for telegraph lines.