倉庫

See also: 仓库

Chinese

		barn; granary; storehouse barn; granary; storehouse; cabin; hold (in ship)	warehouse; storehouse
trad. (倉庫)		倉	庫
simp. (仓库)		仓	库

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cāngkù

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄤ ㄎㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cong¹ fu³

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhông-khu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhng-khò͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang¹ kou³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹tshaon-khu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cāngkù
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄤ ㄎㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cangkù
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻang¹-kʻu⁴
    • Yale: tsāng-kù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsangkuh
    • Palladius: цанку (canku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑŋ⁵⁵ kʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cong¹ fu³
    • Yale: chōng fu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsong¹ fu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: cong¹ fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔːŋ⁵⁵ fuː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhông-khu
    • Hakka Romanization System: cong´ ku
    • Hagfa Pinyim: cong¹ ku⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sʰoŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ kʰu⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhng-khò͘
    • Tâi-lô: tshng-khòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhngqox
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴⁻²² kʰɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍³³ kʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴⁻²² kʰɔ²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰɔ¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰŋ̍⁴⁴⁻³³ kʰɔ²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cang¹ kou³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshang khòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ³³⁻²³ kʰou²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹tshaon-khu
    • MiniDict: tshaon^平 khu
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tshaan-khu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰɑ̃⁵⁵ kʰu²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tshang khuH

Rime
Character	倉	庫
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	清 (14)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	七岡切	苦故切
Baxter	tshang	khuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sʰaŋ/	/kʰɔH/
Li Rong	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰoH/
Wang Li	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sʰɑŋ/	/kʰuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cāng	kù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cong1	fu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s.r̥]ˤaŋ|tsʰˤaŋ  [k]ʰˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰaːŋ  kʰaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	倉	倉	庫
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cāng	cāng	kù
Middle Chinese	‹ tshang ›	‹ tshang ›	‹ khuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s.r̥]ˁaŋ/	/*tsʰˁaŋ/	/*[k]ʰˁa-s/
English	tshang-kæng "oriole"	granary	arsenal; storehouse
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倉	庫
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1125	1314
Phonetic component	倉	車
Rime group	陽	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	倉	絝
Old Chinese	/*sʰaːŋ/	/*kʰaːs/

Noun

倉庫

1. warehouse; storehouse (Classifier: 座 m)
2. (computing) repository (Classifier: 個／个 m)

Synonyms

• (storehouse):

• 倉房／仓房 (cāngfáng)
• 庫房／库房 (kùfáng)
• 棧房／栈房 (zhànfáng)
• 棧間／栈间 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien)

 

Derived terms

• 冷藏倉庫／冷藏仓库
• 四行倉庫／四行仓库

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (倉庫):

• → Japanese: 倉(そう)庫(こ) (sōko)
• → Korean: 창고(倉庫) (changgo)

References

• “Entry #5719”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
倉	庫
そう Grade: 4	こ Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そ​ーこ [sóꜜòkò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [so̞ːko̞]

Noun

倉(そう)庫(こ) • (sōko) ^{←さうこ (sauko)?}

1. warehouse

Derived terms

• 倉庫会社(そうこがいしゃ) (sōkogaisha): warehouse company
• 倉庫番(そうこばん) (sōkoban): warehouseman
• 倉庫業(そうこぎょう) (sōkogyō): warehouse business

Korean

Hanja in this term
倉	庫

Noun

倉庫 • (changgo) (hangeul 창고)

1. Hanja form^? of 창고 (“warehouse”).