Meaning & readings
warehouse, storehouse
On’yomi コ、ク
Kun’yomi くら
Origin
This character combines two meaningful parts to represent a warehouse. The left component 广 represents a shelter or building structure, while the right component 車 means vehicle or cart. Together, they suggest a building designed to store things that arrive by cart or vehicle—in other words, a storage facility or warehouse where goods are received and kept. The shape captures the practical purpose of such a place in an agricultural or commercial setting.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 广
- 車
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 53
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #852 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+05EAB