dòng
main beams supporting house
Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 东 represents the sound. Simplified form of 棟.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 栋
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
ridgepole (old) | ||
ridgepole | ||
richly ornamented (building) | ||
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 | ||
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 11.5009% of movies
1891st most common character in movies
2710th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+680B |
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