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棟

dòng

the main beams supporting a house

Strokes
12
Radical
木
HSK
—
Tone
4

Simplified form: 栋

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 栋, the simplified form of 棟. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 您能看到那栋小房子吗？

    Nín néng kàn dào nà dòng xiǎo fáng zi ma

    Can you see that small house?

  • 你真是自己造了这栋房子吗？

    Nǐ zhēn shi zì jǐ zào le zhè dòng fáng zi ma

    Is it true that you built this house by yourself?

  • 没有人住在这栋楼里。

    Méi yǒu rén zhù zài zhè dòng lóu lǐ

    No man lives in the building.

  • 我在这栋楼里工作。

    Wǒ zài zhè dòng lóu lǐ gōng zuò

    I work in this building.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 栋

  • 栋dòng 4classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
  • 栋梁dòng liáng 4–2 ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)