漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
倉: godown, warehouse
Also: storehouse, cellar, treasury
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
人 carries the meaning · 口 is drawn in
10 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 倉庫そうこstorehouse, warehouse
- 穀倉こくそうgranary
- 弾倉だんそうmagazine (gun)
- 正倉院しょうそういんShosouin
くらkura · kun'yomi · on its own
- 倉くらwarehouse, cellar, depository
- 倉荷くらにwarehouse goods
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Shelter under the roof! This radical looks like a person spreading their arms wide or a simple roof over a home.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 仓 · traditional, as in Japanese · cāng
Japan keeps the traditional form 倉; mainland China simplifies it to 仓.
- Simplified
- 仓 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 倉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin cāng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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