库
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warehouse; storehouse; (file) library
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 广 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 庫
- Common rank
- #719
- Unicode
- U+5E93
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 库
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马尔库斯 | Marcus (name) | |
| 库尔斯克 | Kursk (city) | |
| 库尔德人 | Kurdish person or people | |
| 阿金库尔 | Agincourt (near Arras in north France, scene of a battle in 1415) | |
| 库布里克 | Kubrick | |
| 库尔德工人党 | Kurdistan Worker's Party (PPK) | |
| 库克山 | Mt Cook on New Zealand South Island, national park and highest peak | |
| 法库县 | Faku, a county in Shenyang City 瀋陽市|沈阳市[Shen3 yang2 Shi4], Liaoning | |
| 小金库 | supplementary cash reserve; private fund; private hoard; slush fund | |
| 库车市 | Kuqa, a county-level city in Aksu Prefecture 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[A1 ke4 su1 Di4 qu1], Xinjiang | |
| 库尔德 | Kurd; Kurdish | |
| 马库色 | Marcuse (philosopher) | |
| 塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县 | Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, in Kashgar City 喀什市[Ka1 shi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 石库门 | "shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, … | |
| 库尔特·瓦尔德海姆 | Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007), Austrian diplomat and politician, secretary-general of UN 1972-… | |
| 库里提巴 | Curitiba (city in Brazil) | |
| 库克船长 | Captain James Cook (1728-1779), British navigator and explorer | |
| 四库全书 | Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty) | |
| 精子库 | sperm bank | |
| 图尔库 | Turku (city in Finland) |
Sound family
These characters use 库 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 库 sound part | armory, treasury, warehouse | |
| 裤 | pants, trousers |