仓

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

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HSK 3.0: Level 6
Old HSK: Level 6
Strokes: 4
Radical: 人 +2
Structure: Top–bottom 上下
Traditional: 倉
Common rank: #1,392
Unicode: U+4ED3

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Formation & memory

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How 仓 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Simplified form of 倉; grains 食 kept in storage 口

Components 人㔾

How to remember it

storehouse · Heisig RSH #1119

umbrella + fingerprint

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 仓

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
仓山区	Cāng shān Qū	Cangshan, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian
东仓里	Dōng cāng lǐ	Dongchang-ni, North Korean missile launch site on Yellow Sea, 70 km from Chinese border
太仓市	Tài cāng Shì	Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市\|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
正仓院	Zhēng cāng yuàn	Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeath…
岩仓使节团	Yán cāng shǐ jié tuán	the Iwakura mission (Japanese diplomatic and exploratory mission to US and Europe of 1871)
仓山	Cāng shān	see 倉山區\|仓山区[Cang1 shan1 Qu1]
清仓查库	qīng cāng chá kù	to make an inventory of warehouses
长仓	cháng cāng	long position (finance)
平仓	píng cāng	to close a position (finance)
铁票仓	tiě piào cāng	see 鐵票區\|铁票区[tie3 piao4 qu1]
仓黄	cāng huáng	variant of 倉皇\|仓皇[cang1 huang2]
陈仓区	Chén cāng Qū	Chencang, a district of Baoji City 寶雞市\|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi
明修栈道，暗渡陈仓	míng xiū zhàn dào , àn dù Chén cāng	lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Ch…
加仓	jiā cāng	(finance) to increase one's position
老鼠仓	lǎo shǔ cāng	(finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds a…
清仓	qīng cāng	to take an inventory of stock; to clear out one's stock
太仓	Tài cāng	see 太倉市\|太仓市[Tai4 cang1 Shi4]
仓皇出逃	cāng huáng chū táo	to run off in a great panic (idiom)
米仓	mǐ cāng	rice granary
持仓量	chí cāng liàng	position (finance)

Sound family

These characters use 仓 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
仓 sound part	cāng	granary, barn; cabin, berth
枪	qiāng	gun, rife; lance, spear
创	chuàng	to establish, to create; cut, wound, trauma
苍	cāng	dark blue; deep green; old, hoary
抢	qiǎng	urgent, rushed; to rob, to plunder
疮	chuāng	boil, tumor; wound, sore
沧	cāng	azure, cold, vast (all as of the sea)
呛	qiàng	choking, as by smoke; something that irritates the nose or throat
跄	qiàng	to stagger, to stumble
戗	qiāng	to support
怆	chuàng	sad, disconsolate, broken-hearted
鸧	cāng	oriole
炝	qiàng	to stir-fry; to cook in sauce