棟

See also 栋

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 東

Han character

棟 (radical 75 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木田 (DDW), four-corner 4599₆)

1. the main beams supporting a house

References

• KangXi: page 533, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14949
• Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1227, character 5
• Unihan data for U+68DF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

棟 (simplified 栋, Yale dung3, dung6)

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Japanese

Kanji

棟 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: とう (tō)
• Kun: むね (mune)

Counter

棟 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. buildings

Noun

棟 (hiragana とう, romaji tō)

1. large building

棟 (hiragana むね, romaji mune)

1. ridge of a roof

Suffix

棟 (hiragana とう, romaji -tō)

1. building

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Korean

Hanja

棟 (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune-Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

棟 (simplified 栋, pinyin dòng (dong4), Wade-Giles tung⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

棟 (Đống)