棟

棟 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木木田 (DDW), four-corner 4599₆, composition ⿰木東)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 533, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14949
• Dae Jaweon: page 921, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1227, character 5
• Unihan data for U+68DF

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *toːŋs): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ).

See the possibly-related Burmese တုံး (tum:, “log”) for more (STEDT).

棟

1. main beam supporting a house; ridgepole
2. (literary) house; building
3. Classifier for buildings. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
4. (figurative) important person; pillars of the state

   • 子於鄭國，棟也。棟折榱崩，僑將厭焉，敢不盡言？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     子于郑国，栋也。栋折榱崩，侨将厌焉，敢不尽言？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zǐ yú Zhèng guó, dòng yě. Dòng zhé cuī bēng, qiáo jiāng yàn yān, gǎn bù jìnyán? [Pinyin]

     You are the main support of the State of Zheng. If the main support be broken, the rafters will tumble down. I shall be crushed beneath them, and I must therefore speak out all my mind.

5. (Sichuanese) mountain ridge; mountain peak
6. a surname, Dong

• (house):

• 嶺／岭 (lǐng, “mountain ridge, mountain peak”)

• 蓝勇. 第十三章：历史时期西南综合文化区的划分. 《西南历史文化地理》. 西南师范大学出版社. 1997. →ISBN.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: つ (tsu)、つう (tsū)
• Kan-on: とう (tō, Jōyō)
• Kun: むね (mune, 棟, Jōyō)、むな (muna, 棟, Jōyō ^†)

• (Tokyo) むね [múꜜnè] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) むね [mùnéꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [mɯ̟ne̞]

棟(むね) • (-mune) 

1. buildings

• 戸(こ) (ko)
• 軒(けん) (ken)

棟(むね) • (mune) 

1. (architecture) ridge of a roof

• 棟木(むなぎ) (munagi)
• 棟上(むねあ)げ (muneage)

棟(とう) • (tō) 

1. large building

棟(とう) • (-tō) 

1. building

• 棟梁(とうりょう) (tōryō)
• 病棟(びょうとう) (byōtō)

• “棟”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

棟 • (dong) (hangeul 동, revised dong, McCune–Reischauer tong, Yale tong)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

棟 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of đông.

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

棟: Hán Việt readings: đống^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}
棟: Nôm readings: đống^{[1][2][4][5][6][7]}, đóng^[1][3][4][7], chống^[1], gióng^[1], đúng^[3]

1. chữ Nôm form of chống (“to prop up; to lean on”)
2. chữ Nôm form of đống (“heap, pile”)
   • Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經), 12th century, folio 7a

     奴(No)𱍸(ấy)孛(Bụt)侯(hầu)󰝡(đem)大(đại)󰕛(chúng)多(đi)正(chính)南(nam)体(thấy)𠬛(một)棟(đống)昌(xương)枯(khô)

     At that time, the Buddha led the people on a walk to the south. Suddenly, they saw a pile of dried bones.

3. chữ Nôm form of gióng (“to beat, to ring”)