Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 6

JLPT level: N2

468 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 15

Meaning: storehouse, hide, own, have, possess

Kunyomi: くら おさ.める かく.れる

Onyomi: ゾウ ソウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: くさかんむり

Meaning: grass

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

書(ぞうしょ)   book collection

相(ぞうしょう)   Minister of Finance

(しょぞう)   (in one's) possession

庫(れいぞうこ)   refrigerator

する(ひぞうする)   treasure [v.t.]

する(ちょぞうする)   store, preserve

(くら)   warehouse

省(おおくらしょう)   Ministry of Finance

(こめぐら)   rice granary

Onyomi Examples

ゾウ possession, ownership, Tibet, Tibetan people

ゾウショ collection of books, (personal) library

ジゾウ Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld), Ksitigarbha, Jizō

ナイゾウ internal (e.g. disk), built-in, equipped (with)

ヒゾウ treasuring, cherishing, prizing, holding dear

Kunyomi Examples

くら warehouse, storehouse, cellar, magazine, granary, godown, depository, treasury, elevator

くらもと brewery (sake, soy), brewer, warehouse overseer

おおくら Ministry of Finance

おくら shelving (a play, movie, etc.), closing down, cancelling, canceling, shelf (i.e. "on the shelf"), rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate