笔杆

Traditional form:

筆桿

Pinyin (reading):

bǐgǎn

Definitions:

• the shaft of a pen or writing brush
• (metonym) pen (as in 耍筆桿／耍笔杆 (shuǎbǐgǎn) and 搖筆桿／摇笔杆 (yáobǐgǎn))

Characters:

• 笔 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke
• 杆 - cane, pole, stick

Traditional characters:

• 筆 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke
• 桿 - cane, pole, stick