English
- the main beams supporting a house
- classifier for houses or buildings
- to stand up or stand straight (Cantonese)
- to make something upright
- ridgepole (old)
- to stand like a pillar
- stack; column; a measure word for tall things such as a building
- pillar; column
粵語
- 豎起、舉起或直立
- 好似一條直柱噉企喺度
- 用嚟數一啲直立嘅、高嘅嘢嘅量詞
- 建築物入面，頂住上面壓落嚟嘅重量嘅垂直主結構件
Variants
Words containing 棟
- 棟梁dung6 loeng4
ridgepole
- 棟樑dung6 loeng4
a column; the pillar
- 打棟daa2 dung6
to set vertically
- 斜棟ce3 dung6
(punctuation) slash
- 棟篤笑dung6 duk1 siu3
(noun) talk shows
- 過一棟gwo3 jat1 dung6
to set a trap for someone; to frame someone （to "set someone up"）.Originated from the jargon of mahjong, literally means "pass a block", which is a way to prevent tricks applied during the shuffle. Originally meant "to set a trap for someone but trapped oneself", nowadays in remains only "to set someone up".
- 棟樓dung6 lau2
- 樓棟lau4 dung6
building
- 獨棟duk6 dung6
(of a building) detached
- 單棟樓daan1 dung3 lau2
- 棟宇dung6 jyu5
a house; a mansion; a building
- 一棟嘢jat1 dung6 je5
- 一棟都冇jat1 dung6 dou1 mou5
nothing left
- 吳作棟ng4 zok3 dung6
Goh Chok Tong (1941-), Singapore businessman and politician, prime minister 1990-2004
- 棟篤食dung6 duk1 sik6
- 汗牛充棟hon6 ngau4 cung1 dung3
lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
- 雕梁畫棟diu1 loeng4 waak6 dung6
richly ornamented (building)
- 幾棟嘢gei2 dung6 je5
- 一橫一棟jat1 waang4 jat1 dung6
- 三棟屋博物館saam1 dung6 uk1 bok3 mat6 gun2
Sam Tung Uk Museum