倉

See also 仓

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 食 (“food”) + 口 (“house”)

Han character

倉 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日口 (OIAR), four-corner 8060₇)

1. granary
2. berth
3. sea

Derived terms

傖, 創, 滄, 愴, 蒼, 搶, 鎗, 凔, 牄, 嗆, 熗, 瑲, 槍, 戧, 瘡, 鶬, 艙, 蹌

References

• KangXi: page 107, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 756
• Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 169, character 15
• Unihan data for U+5009

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Cantonese

Hanzi

倉 (simplified 仓, Yale chong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

倉 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くら (kura)

Compounds

• 校倉
• 内倉
• 営倉
• 穀倉
• 常平倉
• 船倉
• 弾倉
• 武器倉
• 米倉
• 胸倉
• 倉荷
• 倉庫
• 倉皇
• 鎌倉
• 倉主
• 倉敷
• 倉廩
• 小倉餡

Noun

倉 (hiragana くら, romaji kura)

1. warehouse, storehouse
2. granary

Derived terms

• 倉出し
• 倉入れ

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Korean

Hanja

倉 (hangeul 창, revised chang, McCune-Reischauer ch'ang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

倉 (simplified 仓, pinyin cāng (cang1), gě (ge3), Wade-Giles ts'ang¹, ko³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

倉 (*tsɑng, tsɑng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倉 (thương)