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栋
棟
dòng
1.
classifier for houses or buildings
2.
ridgepole (old)
HSK 6
Very Common • Top 5%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (5)
栋梁
dòngliáng
ridgepole
独栋
dúdòng
(of a building) detached
吴作栋
WúZuòdòng
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
汗牛充栋
hànniúchōngdòng
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
雕梁画栋
diāoliánghuàdòng
richly ornamented (building)
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 2,709
- Word Frequency Rank
- 4,277 of 84,292