ridgepole, ridge

Radicals

Common words

• 別棟【べつむね】
  separate building, outbuilding, outhouse
• 病棟【びょうとう】
  (hospital) ward
• 棟梁【とうりょう】
  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
• 上棟【じょうとう】
  raising the ridgepole