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Kanji Detail for 倉 - "warehouse, storehouse, granary"

倉

  • Meaning

    倉 means "warehouse, storehouse, granary."

    1. Warehouse - A storage building.

    2. Storehouse - A place to keep goods.

    3. Granary - A building for storing grain.

  • Words using 倉

    • 倉庫 そうこ Listen storehouse; warehouse; godown
    • 倉敷 くらしき Listen Kurashiki (city); storage charges
    • 米倉 こめぐら Listen rice granary
    • 鎌倉 かまくら Listen Kamakura (city)

  • Tattoo check: 倉

    • Verified meaning: warehouse, storehouse, granary
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read くら, くらたか)

    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.

  • Name readings of 倉

    Surnames 倉(くら)Listen 倉(くらたか)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    godown; warehouse; storehouse; cellar; treasury

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    granary; berth; sea

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    granary, barn; cabin, berth

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

    A place to store grain. Round ones are called 囷; square ones are called 倉. | 倉卒: Hasty appearance. | Interchangeable with 滄. 滄海 is also written as 倉海.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kura(くら) くら

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    warehouse storehouse granary hasty barn depot cellar goods hoard inventory repository shed silo stock storage

Sentences including 倉

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