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栋

dòng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 6 Character Traditional 棟

栋 (dòng) means "classifier for buildings". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 栋 means

1. classifier for houses or buildings
2. ridgepole (old)

How 栋 is used in grammar

栋 is a grammar word. Each link goes to its own section: what it does in that pattern, the structure, three example sentences with pinyin, and the mistake to avoid.

• Advanced Measure Words: Nominal and Verbal (HSK 6)

Example sentences

• 看那栋高楼。
  Look at that tall building.
• 那栋房子很大。
  That house is big.
• 他走过这栋房子。
  Tā zǒuguò zhè dòng fángzi.
  He walked past the house.
• 那栋房子是我的。
  That house belongs to me.
• 我盖了栋新房子。
  I built a new house.
• 你买了栋新房子。
  You bought a new house.

Words starting with 栋

• 栋梁dòng liángridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility

Words containing 栋

• 独栋dú dòng(of a building) detached
• 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)…
• 雕梁画栋diāo liáng huà dòngrichly ornamented (building)
• 吴作栋Wú Zuò dòngGoh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004

Characters built on 东

These share the phonetic component 东 (dōng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 冻dòngto freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
• 鸫dōngthrush (bird of genus Turdus)
• 胨dòngsee 蛋白胨

Characters that look like 栋

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 核hépit; stone; nucleus
• 捕bǔto catch; to seize; to capture
• 拣jiǎnto choose; to pick; to sort out
• 桂guìcassia; laurel
• 拢lǒngto gather together; to collect; to approach; to draw near to; to add; to sum up
• 桢zhēn(old) privet (genus Ligustrum); (bound form; old) wooden support placed at the ends of a…

Sounds the same

Read dòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 动(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace
• 洞cave; hole; zero (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers)
• 冻to freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly
• 峒cave; cavern
• 恫frighten
• 胴large intestine; torso
• 丼(Taiwan) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
• 垌field; farm; used in place names
• 湩milk; sound of a drum
• 侗Dong ethnic group
• 胨see 蛋白胨
• 硐variant of 洞; cave; pit

Where 栋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dòng–dū (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dòng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.