栋 (dòng) means Beam (pole). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
小区里一共有十二 栋 房子。
Xiǎoqū lǐ yígòng yǒu shí'èr dòng fángzi.
There are twelve buildings in the compound altogether.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋
这 栋 楼建于上世纪五十年代。
Zhè dòng lóu jiàn yú shàng shìjì wǔshí niándài.
This building was put up in the nineteen-fifties.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 栋
他住在一 栋 公寓里。
Tā zhù zài yí dòng gōngyù lǐ.
He lives in an apartment building.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 公寓
两 栋 楼之间有一条空隙。
Liǎng dòng lóu zhījiān yǒu yì tiáo kòngxì.
There is a gap between the two buildings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 空隙
这 栋 楼的外表看起来很旧。
Zhè dòng lóu de wàibiǎo kàn qǐlái hěn jiù.
The outside of this building looks very old.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 外表
他们在山上买了一 栋 小别墅。
Tāmen zài shān shang mǎi le yí dòng xiǎo biéshù.
They bought a small villa up in the hills.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 别墅
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Questions about 栋
How is 栋 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 栋 (dòng, "Beam (pole)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 栋 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 栋 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 栋 an HSK word?
Yes — 栋 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 栋?
The dictionary page for 栋 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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