栋

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What 栋 means

classifier for houses or buildings; ridgepole (old)

Pictophonetic: semantic 木 (wood), phonetic 东

Made of 木 + 东

Words with 栋

• 栋梁dòng liángridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
• 独栋dú dòng(of a building) detached
• 雕梁画栋diāo liáng huà dòngrichly ornamented (building)
• 汗牛充栋hàn niú chōng dònglit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
• 吴作栋wú zuò dòngGoh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004

栋 in a sentence

• 没有人住在这栋楼里。

  méi yǒu rén zhù zài zhè dòng lóu lǐ 。

  No man lives in the building.

• 你买了栋新房子。

  nǐ mǎi le dòng xīn fáng zi 。

  You bought a new house.

• 我盖了栋新房子。

  wǒ gài le dòng xīn fáng zi 。

  I built a new house.

• 那栋建筑是什么呢？

  nà dòng jiàn zhù shì shén me ne ？

  What's that building?

• 我们有不到五分钟来疏散整栋楼的人。

  wǒ men yǒu bú dào wǔ fēn zhōng lái shū sàn zhěng dòng lóu de rén 。

  We have less than five minutes to evacuate the whole building.

Characters that sound like 栋

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