栋
dòng HSK7

main beams supporting house

栋 (棟) dòng
classifier measure word
classifier for houses or buildings

这条街上有好几栋新盖的住宅楼。

zhè tiáo jiē shàng yǒu hǎo​jǐ dòng xīn gài de zhù​zhái​lóu.

There are several newly built residential buildings on this street.

ridgepole noun
the horizontal beam along the ridge of a roof

木匠正在测量这根大木头是否适合做房顶的栋。

mù​jiàng zhèng​zài cè​liáng zhè gēn dà mù​tou shì​fǒu shì​hé zuò fáng​dǐng de dòng.

The carpenter is measuring if this large piece of wood is suitable for the roof ridgepole.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)