竿さお (sao)

rod, pole (e.g. for drying laundry)

  • JLPT N1
  • Pitch 2
  • #14112 most frequent
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Meaning

竿 (さお, sao) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “rod, pole (e.g. for drying laundry)”.

Example sentences 7

物干ものほ竿さおを 買いかいかえた

I bought a new laundry pole.

竿さおにシーツを 全部ぜんぶ しました。

I put all of the sheets to dry on the pole.

このようにして出来た物干し竿を補助具A、補助具Bを使って物干し台に安定させる。

The clothespole, which is manufactured in this way, is stabilized on a clothes-drying platform by means of the auxiliary implements A and B.

竿の端にそれぞれ上下作動用綱と開閉作動用綱を取り付け滑車を経由して竿3を動かす切っ掛けの作動をする円盤と連結させる。

A rope for up-and-down operations and a rope for opening and closing operations are attached to the ends of the poles and connected to a disk making trigger operations to move the poles 3 through pulleys.