栋
dòng
classifier for houses or buildings
ridgepole (old)
This is a measure word (classifier) — its function is grammatical.
Words with 栋
雕梁画栋
diāo liáng huà dòng
richly ornamented (building)
吴作栋
wú zuò dòng
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
栋梁
dòng liáng
ridgepole
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