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Meaning of 栋

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(Trad.: 棟)
Pinyin: dòng
English Definition: classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
Chinese Definition:
①房屋的脊檩,喻能担负重任的人:栋梁。栋宇。画栋雕梁。
②量词,指房屋:一栋房子。
Total strokes: 9; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (wood) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ ] tree; wood, lumber; wooden
    • [ dōng ] east, eastern, eastward
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Example Words
栋梁 dòng liáng ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
雕梁画栋 diāo liáng huà dòng richly ornamented (building)
汗牛充栋 hàn niú chōng dòng lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
吴作栋 zuò dòng Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
画栋雕梁 huà dòng diāo liáng a richly ornamented building (idiom)
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Example Sentences
1
He said, you know that building?
2
便
The wicket from which the pair had lately emerged was in the wall of this structure.
3
Who bought that new house down the street from you?
4
I don't know why but I had to get out of that house and go home.
5
He operates his own warehouses a few miles from the school, in the basements of a pair of residential buildings.