仓
barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)
4 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,392 U+4ED3
How 仓 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 倉; grains 食 kept in storage 口
How to remember it
storehouse · Heisig RSH #1119
umbrella + fingerprint
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 仓 as their sound component
These characters all use 仓 (cāng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仓 sound component | 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 |
Words containing 仓
| 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) |