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仓

cāng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 倉

What 仓 means

1. barn
2. granary
3. storehouse
4. cabin
5. hold (in ship)

Example sentences

• 他画了谷仓。
  Tā huà le gǔcāng.
  He painted the 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.
• 暂时藏在仓库里好了。
  Hide it inside the warehouse for now.
• 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?
• 这个故事仓促地结了尾。
  Zhège gùshi cāngcù de jié le wěi.
  The story ended suddenly.
• 雕鸮和仓鸮有什幺区别？
  What's the difference between an eagle-owl and a barn owl?

Words starting with 仓

• 仓库cāng kùdepot; storehouse; warehouse
• 仓促cāng cùall of a sudden; hurriedly
• 仓皇cāng huángin a panic; flurried
• 仓储cāng chǔto store in a warehouse
• 仓位cāng wèi(logistics) storage location; place to store goods; (finance) position
• 仓山区Cāng shān QūCangshan, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市
• 仓皇出逃cāng huáng chū táoto run off in a great panic (idiom)
• 仓皇失措cāng huáng shī cuòflustered; ruffled; disconcerted
• 仓鼠cāng shǔhamster
• 仓敷Cāng fūKurashiki (city in Japan)
• 仓庚cāng gēngblack-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
• 仓颉Cāng JiéCang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of Chinese writing…
• 仓廪cāng lǐn(literary) granary
• 仓惶cāng huángvariant of 仓皇
• 仓山Cāng shānsee 仓山区
• 仓黄cāng huángvariant of 仓皇
• 仓卒cāng cùvariant of 仓促
• 仓猝cāng cùvariant of 仓促

Words containing 仓

• 粮仓liáng cānggranary; barn; fig. bread basket (of fertile agricultural land)
• 谷仓gǔ cāngbarn
• 清仓qīng cāngto take an inventory of stock; to clear out one's stock
• 倒仓dǎo cāngto transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it); voice breaking…
• 加仓jiā cāng(finance) to increase one's position
• 平仓píng cāngto close a position (finance)
• 持仓chí cāng(finance) to hold one's securities (rather than selling them)
• 料仓liào cānggranary; storehouse
• 短仓duǎn cāngshort position (finance)
• 票仓piào cāngsafe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate)…
• 米仓mǐ cāngrice granary
• 货仓huò cāngwarehouse
• 长仓cháng cānglong position (finance)
• 陈仓Chén cāngancient name of Baoji City 宝鸡市; Chencang district of Baoji City
• 太仓市Tài cāng ShìTaicang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 苏州市
• 持仓量chí cāng liàngposition (finance)
• 东仓里Dōng cāng lǐDongchang-ni, North Korean missile launch site on Yellow Sea, 70 km from Chinese border
• 正仓院Zhēng cāng yuànShōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts…
• 陈仓区Chén cāng QūChencang, a district of Baoji City 宝鸡市
• 暗渡陈仓àn dù Chén cānglit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河; fig. to feign one thing while doing another…
• 清仓查库qīng cāng chá kùto make an inventory of warehouses
• 资料仓储zī liào cāng chǔdata warehouse (computing)
• 颗粒归仓kē lì guī cāngto gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain
• 老鼠仓lǎo shǔ cāng(finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds…

Characters that look like 仓

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 去qùto go; to go to (a place); (of a time etc) last
• 击jīto hit; to strike; to break
• 央yāngcenter; end; to beg
• 仑lúnto arrange

Sounds the same

Read cāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 舱cabin; the hold of a ship or airplane
• 沧(bound form) (of water, esp. the ocean) deep blue-green; (literary) cold
• 苍dark blue; deep green; ash-gray
• 伧low fellow; rustic; rude
• 凔cold
• 鸧used in 鸧鹒