懂中文 Dong Chinese

栋

dòng

main beams supporting house

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 东 represents the sound. Simplified form of 棟.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

东 sound component

东  Sound component

dōng

  

east

Evolution

栋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
栋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
栋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
栋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

栋 (棟) 

dòng

the main beams supporting a house; classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)

Most common words with 栋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

栋

ridgepole (old)

栋梁

ridgepole

雕梁画栋

richly ornamented (building)

吴作栋

Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004

汗牛充栋

lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books