懂中文 Dong Chinese

棟

dòng

main beams supporting house

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 東 represents the sound.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

東 sound component

東  Sound component

dōng

  

east

Evolution

棟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
棟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
棟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

栋 (棟) 

dòng

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

Most common words with 棟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

栋

ridgepole (old)

栋梁

ridgepole

雕梁画栋

richly ornamented (building)

吴作栋

Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004

汗牛充栋

lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books