棟 (dòng)
classifier for buildings/houses
How 棟 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 棟
- Simplified
- 栋
Common words using 棟
- 棟梁 dòngliáng
- ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility
- 汗牛充棟 hànniúchōngdòng
- lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
- 獨棟 dúdòng
- (of a building) detached
- 雕梁畫棟 diāoliánghuàdòng
- richly ornamented (building)
棟 in a sentence
這一棟大樓是台北最高的建築。
Zhè yí dòng dàlóu shì Táiběi zuì gāo de jiànzhú.
“This building is the tallest structure in Taipei.”
How common is 棟?
棟 is the 2,704th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.8% of all running text.
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