栋 — Chinese character
栋
dòng
ridge-beam; the main support of a house
- Pinyin
- dòng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 木 东
- Formation
- pictophonetic — wood; meaning component 木; sound component 东
- Traditional
- 棟
Common words with 栋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 栋梁 (棟梁) | dòng liáng | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams |
| 独栋 (獨棟) | dú dòng | (of a building) detached |
| 雕梁画栋 (雕梁畫棟) | diāo liáng huà dòng | richly ornamented (building) |
| 汗牛充栋 (汗牛充棟) | 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 |
| 楼栋 (樓棟) | lóu dòng | building |
English words written with 栋
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.