漢字Kanji · in Structures & Home
庫: warehouse, storehouse
JLPT N210 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
广 carries the meaning · 車 is drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
コko · on'yomi · in compounds
- 倉庫そうこstorehouse, warehouse
- 金庫きんこsafe [n.]
- 車庫しゃこgarage
- 宝庫ほうこtreasury, treasure house
- 在庫ざいこstockpile, stock
- 文庫本ぶんこぼんpaperback
- 格納庫かくのうこhangar
クku · on'yomi
- 庫裏くりtemple kitchen
Also read くら, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)广 building (meaning) + 車 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 庫 (rev. 94580629), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Slant roof (广) + car (車). A functional "building" designed specifically to house and protect a valuable "car" or chariot—the definition of a warehouse.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side庫 warehouse · 广
vs陣 camp · ⻖In ChineseSimplified 库 · traditional, as in Japanese · kù
Japan keeps the traditional form 庫; mainland China simplifies it to 库.
- Simplified
- 库 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 庫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin kù 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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