仓 (cāng): barn, granary, storehouse
仓 (cāng) is a Chinese character meaning “barn.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 人 (structural) and 㔾 (structural). It ranks #1861 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 仓 simplified form of 倉; grains 食 kept in storage 口. Its radical form 亻 (person) appears in many related characters such as 人 (rén, person), 什 (shén, what), 今 (jīn, now).
Definitions
- barn
- granary
- storehouse
Etymology & Origin
ideographicSimplified form of 倉; grains 食 kept in storage 口
Decomposition: ⿱人㔾 (layout: top-bottom)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 仓
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 谷仓noun | gǔ cāng | barn |
| 仓促 | cāng cù | all of a sudden |
| 仓鼠noun | cāng shǔ | hamster |
| 清仓verb | qīng cāng | to take an inventory of stock |
| 粮仓noun | liáng cāng | granary |
| 仓储verb | cāng chǔ | to store in a warehouse |
| 仓皇adjective | cāng huáng | in a panic |
| 暗渡陈仓phrase | àn dù chén cāng | lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河 at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Li... |
| 仓惶 | cāng huáng | variant of 倉皇|仓皇 |
| 东仓里 | dōng cāng lǐ | Dongchang-ni, North Korean missile launch site on Yellow Sea, 70 km from Chinese border |
| 正仓院 | zhēng cāng yuàn | Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeathed to the Tōdai-ji temple b... |
| 太仓市 | tài cāng shì | Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市, Jiangsu |
| 持仓量noun | chí cāng liàng | position (finance) |
| 仓山区 | cāng shān qū | Cangshan, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市, Fujian |
| 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 appears in 54 compound words: 33 as the first character, 43 as the last, and 24 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 仓 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (3)
Example Sentences
他仓品很好，在村里很受尊敬。
tā cāng pǐn hěn hǎo , zài cūn lǐ hěn shòu zūn jìng .
He is a man of integrity and is highly respected in the village.
蒋万安推3大新政挨批仓促上路 绿议员叹欠缺沟通:别把好事给做坏
蒋 wàn ān tuī 3 dà xīn zhèng āi pī cāng cù shàng lù lǜ yì yuán tàn qiàn quē gōu tōng : bié bǎ hǎo shì gěi zuò huài
Jiang Wan'an pushed the three new policies and was criticized for rushing on the road, and the green lawmaker lamented the lack of communication: Don't do good things badly
2月期指未平仓合约减少29426张至37047张
2 yuè qī zhǐ wèi píng cāng gě yuē jiǎn shǎo 2 9 4 2 6 zhāng zhì 3 7 0 4 7 zhāng
The open interest of the February index decreased by 29,426 to 37,047
外汇基金“开仓”撑北都基建 港元会否再被狙击?
wài huì jī jīn kāi cāng chēng běi dōu jī jiàn gǎng yuán huì fǒu zài bèi 狙 jī ?
Will the Hong Kong dollar be sniped again?
上水“怪兽仓”两幼犬被困笼内 一狗断尾惹乌蝇 区议员...
shàng shuǐ guài shòu cāng liǎng yòu quǎn bèi kùn lóng nèi yī gǒu duàn wěi rě wū yíng qū yì yuán . . .
Two puppies in the "monster warehouse" in Sheung Shui were trapped in a cage, and a dog cut off its tail to provoke flies District councilor...
是谁忘了把仓库的门锁上？
Shì shéi wàng le bǎ cāngkù de mén suǒshàng?
Who was it that forgot to lock the door of the warehouse?
鹰鸮和仓鸮有什么区别？
Yīngxiāo hé cāngxiāo yǒu shénme qūbié?
What's the difference between an eagle-owl and a barn owl?
暂时藏在仓库里好了。
Zànshí cáng zài cāngkù lǐ hǎo le.
Hide it inside the warehouse for now.
为躲避风暴，我们躲到了附近的一个谷仓内。
Wèi duǒbì fēngbào, wǒmen duǒ dào le fùjìn de yī gè gǔcāng nèi.
We took refuge from the storm in a nearby barn.
汤姆在仓库前等玛丽。
Tāngmǔ zài cāngkù qián děng Mǎlì.
Tom waited for Mary in front of the warehouse.
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