栋
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classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 棟
- Common rank
- #3,730
- Unicode
- U+680B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 栋
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 汗牛充栋 | lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. … | |
| 雕梁画栋 | richly ornamented (building) | |
| 吴作栋 | Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 | |
| 独栋 | (of a building) detached | |
| 楼栋 | building | |
| 栋梁 | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of org… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 东 — compare how they read.