栋梁 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 棟梁 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. dòngliáng ㄉㄨㄥˋ ㄌㄧㄤˊ ridgepole ridgepole and beams person able to bear heavy responsibility mainstay (of organization) pillar (of state) Character by character 栋(dòng)classifier for houses or buildings 梁(liáng)roof beam A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT