dòng liáng

Traditional: 棟梁

HSK 7–9

栋梁 (dòng liáng) is a Chinese word meaning “ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility”.

Meanings

  1. 1ridgepole
  2. 2ridgepole and beams
  3. 3person able to bear heavy responsibility
  4. 4mainstay (of organization)
  5. 5pillar (of state)
Part of speech
noun

Characters in 栋梁

栋dòng · classifier for houses or buildings梁liáng · roof beam

Related words

栋classifier for houses or buildings桥梁bridge (lit. and fig.)梁roof beam梁Liang Dynasty (502–557)梁variant of 梁[liang2]横梁beam鼻梁bridge of the nose脊梁backbone脊梁(coll.) back (of a human or other vertebrate)顶梁柱pillar脊梁骨backbone偷梁换柱lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column

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