1 mainstay

2 pillar

3 prop

4 backbone

1 pillar

2 classifier: 根 gēn

1 pillar

2 classifier: 根 gēn

1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)

2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

1 icicle

1 lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom)

2 fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders

1 lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column

2 to replace the original with a fake

3 to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)

1 lit. the dragon-fly shakes the stone tower (idiom); fig. to overestimate one's capabilities