漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
箱: box, chest
Also: case, bin, railway car
JLPT N315 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
竹 carries the meaning · 相 gives the sound
15 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
はこhako · kun'yomi · on its own
- 箱はこbox
- 箱庭はこにわminiature garden
- 箱入り娘はこいりむすめgirl who has led a sheltered life
- 巣箱すばこnest box
- 本箱ほんばこbookcase
- 郵便箱ゆうびんばこmailbox
- 救急箱きゅうきゅうばこfirst-aid kit
- 私書箱ししょばこPost Office Box
Also read ソウ, 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)竹 bamboo, as 𥫗 (meaning) + 相 (sound)
A bamboo box.
Source: Wiktionary, 箱 (rev. 92162384), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Bamboo (⺮) + tree/each. Represents a "box" or container originally woven or constructed from "bamboo" for storage and transport.”
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箱 box · 竹
vs想 idea · 心In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · xiāng
Same form: 箱 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 箱 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 箱 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin xiāng 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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