棟 dòng

the main beams supporting a house

DEFINITIONS

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

WORDS

吳作棟 wú zuò dòng Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
棟梁 dòng liáng ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
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
獨棟 dú dòng (of a building) detached
雕梁畫棟 diāo liáng huà dòng richly ornamented (building)
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