栋
dòng HSK7

main beams supporting house

栋 棟 dòng
[classifier] measure word
Used for houses or large buildings; 个 gè is more common in everyday speech for smaller structures.

那栋楼就是文化中心。

nà dòng lóu jiù​shì wén​huà zhōng​xīn.

That building is the cultural center.

ridgepole
(bound form) The main horizontal beam of a roof; also used figuratively to mean a person who carries great responsibility, as in 栋梁 dòng​liáng.
Dong
A Chinese surname
house
(literary) a house or building

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,710th most common 14.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,891st most common 23.3 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
32.1 per million appears in 11% of films
Written text
25.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
棟
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+680B

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)