棟 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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dòng

main beams supporting house

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 東 represents the sound.

Components

木 Meaning component

mù

tree

東 Sound component

dōng

east

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

dòng

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

Most common words with 棟

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