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carrying pole

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Also known as shoulder yoke, human yoke, milkmaid's yoke, carrying stick, burden stick

yoke of wood or bamboo used by people to carry a load

Key facts

Traditional chinese
擔杖
Simplified chinese
担杖
Hanyu pinyin
dànzhàng

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese擔挑 Simplified Chinese担挑

Second alternative Chinese name Traditional Chinese扁擔 Simplified Chinese扁担

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “carrying pole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.