Memory phrase for the character: 栋

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Left: tree 木, right: east 东/東 (here: 木 as ridge beam, located horizontal at the roof's top, which supports at both sides boards 日 to form the roof)

The tree located at the top, which supports the roof's boards 日 is the ridgepole.

木	tree
東	east	In this radical, the sun rises 日 behind a tree 木 in the east. The radical has been simplified to 东. In some characters, such as 拣, there is an additional short horizontal line. For reasons of simplicity, this is nevertheless also understood as "east".

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栋梁	dòng liáng	ridgepole; ridgepole and beams; person able to bear heavy responsibility; mainstay (of organization); pillar (of state)
雕梁画栋	diāo liáng huà dòng	richly ornamented (building)
汗牛充栋	hàn niú chōng dòng	lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom); fig. many books
汗牛充栋	hàn niú chōng dòng

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