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Kanji Detail for 貨 - "goods, currency, treasure"

貨

  • Meaning

    貨 means "goods, currency, treasure."

    1. Goods - Merchandise; commodities.

    2. Currency - Money; wealth.

    3. Treasure - Valuable possessions.

  • Words using 貨

    • 通貨 つうか Listen currency
    • 百貨店 ひゃっかてん Listen department store
    • 外貨 がいか Listen foreign currency; foreign money; foreign exchange
    • 貨物 かもつ Listen cargo; freight; money or assets
    • 雑貨 ざっか Listen miscellaneous goods; general goods; sundries
    • 硬貨 こうか Listen coin; hard currency
    • 貨幣 かへい Listen money; currency; coin
    • 金貨 きんか Listen gold coin

  • Four-character idioms with 貨

    • 奇貨可居 きかおくべし Listen you must seize every golden opportunity; strike while the iron is hot; when you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price

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    • Verified meaning: goods, currency, treasure
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    freight; goods; property

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    goods, commodities, products

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    goods; money; commodity; CL:個|个[ge4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    products, merchandise; goods, commodities

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Wealth. Such as 貨幣 (currency). Today things that can be exchanged for money are generally called 貨. Such as saying 貨色 (goods). | To sell. "Mencius" says "To give without a place to receive is to sell it."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ka(カ) カ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    takara(たから) たから

  • Strokes

    tip

    11 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    貝 (kai・kaihen・kogai)

  • Related Keywords

    goods currency treasure buy bribe give present sell cargo freight commodities delivery export gold import inventory merchandise products shipment stock wealth

Sentences including 貨

  • I paid in coin.

  • I get most things at the stores.

  • Here are a few coppers.

  • Where can we exchange yen into dollars?

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