HSK 7–9 vocabularyHSK 3.0

栋梁

dòngliáng

Traditional: 棟梁

Meaning of 栋梁 in English

dòngliángHSK 7–9nounSyllabus #6343
  1. ridgepole
  2. ridgepole and beams
  3. person able to bear heavy responsibility
  4. mainstay (of organization)
  5. pillar (of state)

Characters

栋 on its own →
dòng · classifier for houses or buildings

HSK words with 栋

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HSK words with 梁

Level, pinyin and part of speech: HSK Syllabus (CLEC, Nov 2025). Definitions: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sources & licences