| 栋 | [ dòng ] classifier for houses or buildings, ridgepole (old) |
| 栋梁 | [ dòng liáng ] ridgepole, ridgepole and beams, person able to bear heavy responsibility, mainstay (of organization), pillar (of state) |
| ⇒ 吴作栋 | [ wú zuò dòng ] Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004 |
| ⇒ 汗牛充栋 | [ hàn niú chōng dòng ] lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books |
| ⇒ 独栋 | [ dú dòng ] (of a building) detached |
| ⇒ 雕梁画栋 | [ liáng huà dòng ] richly ornamented (building) |