cāng
noun #7,107

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 barn; storehouse; warehouse

Examples

HSK 5
Cāngkù hěn dà.
The warehouse is very big.
HSK 7-9
Liángcāng mǎn le.
The granary is full.

Tips

usage
Common in 仓库 (warehouse), 仓促 (hasty).

Components

radical
rén
person; roof
The person radical caps the character as a peaked roof, indexing . Originally pictured a granary with a pointed top - a roof for storing grain. The cap survives in the simplification as the visible roof-line above the storage space below.
ideograph
jié
kneeling figure; door
The lower two-stroke shape pictures the door or opening of the granary beneath the roof. Stacked under the cap, it completes the granary outline - a roofed enclosure with an entry - from which the meaning 'storehouse, granary' derives.

Stroke Order

cāng