Keyword
barn
- granary
- cabin
- berth
- Frequency
- #1762
- Strokes
- 4
Readings
cāng100%
Mnemonic
Simplified form of 倉; grains 食 kept in storage 口
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
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Used in vocabulary
仓库
depot; storehouse; warehouse
仓
barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)
仓储
to store in a warehouse
仓促
all of a sudden; hurriedly
粮仓
granary; barn; fig. bread basket (of fertile agricultural land)
仓鼠
hamster
持仓
(finance) to hold one's securities (rather than selling them)
仓皇
in a panic; flurried
清仓
to take an inventory of stock; to clear out one's stock
谷仓
barn
货仓
warehouse
陈仓
ancient name of Baoji City 宝鸡市 (BǎojīShì), Shaanxi; Chencang district of Baoji City
仓位
(logistics) storage location; place to store goods; (finance) position
加仓
(finance) to increase one's position
平仓
to close a position (finance)
太仓市
Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 苏州市 (SūzhōuShì), Jiangsu
米仓
rice granary
仓颉
Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of Chinese writing; (computing) Cangjie input method
镰仓
Kamakura (city in Japan)
仓廪
(literary) granary
仓山区
Cangshan, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市 (FúzhōuShì), Fujian
暗渡陈仓
lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 (WèiHé) at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 刘邦 (LiúBāng) in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 项羽 (XiàngYǔ) of Chu); fig. to feign one thing while doing another; to cheat under cover of a diversion
票仓
safe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate); a district in which a majority of voters consistently votes for a particular party or candidate
正仓院
Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeathed to the Tōdai-ji temple by the Japanese emperor Shōmu, who died in 756