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main beams supporting house
Radical 𣎳𣎴
Strokes (without radical) 5 Total Strokes 9
Mandarin reading dòng Cantonese reading dung3 dung6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) the main beams supporting a house

CEDICT Entries:

   [ dòng ]    classifier for houses or buildings, ridgepole (old)
   [ dòng liáng ]    ridgepole, ridgepole and beams, person able to bear heavy responsibility, mainstay (of organization), pillar (of state)
⇒    [ zuò dòng ]    Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
⇒    [ 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
⇒    [ dòng ]    (of a building) detached
⇒    [ liáng huà dòng ]    richly ornamented (building)

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