Kanji1 / 12
棟 kanji
ridgepole, ridge
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N1 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
トウ
Kun readings
むねむな-
Words with 棟
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1棟large building; building with a long roof; counter for buildings, apartments, etc.
- —病棟Popular(hospital) ward
- —上棟raising the ridgepole
- —棟梁central figure; pillar (e.g. of the nation); mainstay; chief support; leader; chief; boss; leader; head; master carpenter; beams and ridge supports of a roof
- —翼棟wing (of a building)
- —寮棟dormitory building; dormitory hall
- —号棟suffix for building numbers
- —西棟west wing (of a building); west building
- —東棟east wing (of a building); east building
- —北棟north wing (of a building); north building
- —南棟south wing (of a building); south building
- —上棟式ridgepole-raising ceremony
- —管理棟administrative building
- —上棟祭ridgepole-raising ceremony
- —陳列棟gallery; exhibition hall
- —炊飯棟campground cooking pavilion
- —隔離病棟isolation ward
- —研究室棟laboratory block; research laboratory building
- —汗牛充棟(having, there being) a great number of books
- —一棟貸しrenting a whole house; cottage rental