庫

See also: 库 and 厙

庫 U+5EAB, 庫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5EAB ← 庪 [U+5EAA] CJK Unified Ideographs 庬 → [U+5EAC]

Translingual

Han character

庫 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 戈十田十 (IJWJ), four-corner 0025₆, composition ⿸广車)

Derived characters

• 𠺟, 𣹫, 𪰽, 𣘍, 𪹜, 𦟏, 褲, 𮜇, 龲, 𧁷, 𥌙, 𪪫, 𧁹, 㐣, 廤, 𭚏

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9330
• Dae Jaweon: page 656, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 884, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5EAB

Chinese

trad.		庫
simp.		库

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 庫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (車) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
車	*kʰlja, *kla
硨	*kʰlja
厙	*qʰljaːs
庫	*kʰaːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰaːs): semantic 广 (“building”) + phonetic 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla).

Shuowen incorrectly interprets it as an ideogrammic compound.

Etymology

According to Karlgren (1956), cognate with 車 (OC *kʰlja, *kla, “carriage”) (< "storehouse for carriages").

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): kù (ku⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ku⁴

  (Xi'an, Guanzhong Pinyin): kū

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): кў (kw, III)

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): fu³

  (Dongguan, Jyutping++): fu³

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): fu¹

• Gan (Wiktionary): ku³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): khu

  (Hailu, HRS): ku^ˇ

  (Meixian, Guangdong): ku⁴

• Jin (Wiktionary): ku³
• Northern Min (KCR): ku̿
• Eastern Min (BUC): kó
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kou⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khò͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): kou³

  (Leizhou, Leizhou Pinyin): keu³ / ku³

• Southern Pinghua (Nanning, Jyutping++): hu³
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹khu / ⁵khou
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): ku⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kù
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kù
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu⁴
    • Yale: kù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuh
    • Palladius: ку (ku)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ku⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ku
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu²¹³/
  • (Xi'an)
    • Guanzhong Pinyin: kū
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: кў (kw, III)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁴⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fu³
    • Yale: fu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuː³³/
  • (Dongguan, Guancheng)
    • Jyutping++: fu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³²/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: fu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³³/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ku³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu²¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khu
    • Hakka Romanization System: ku
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ku⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰu⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: ku^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰu¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ku⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰu⁵³/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: ku³
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /kʰu⁴⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ku̿
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: kó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰou²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: kou⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ko̍
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔu⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Changtai)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khò͘
    • Tâi-lô: khòo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qox
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰɔ⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung): /kʰɔ²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Changtai): /kʰeu²¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kʰɔ¹¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: kou³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khòu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰou²¹³/
  • (Leizhou)
    • Leizhou Pinyin: keu³ / ku³
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰɛu²¹/, /kʰu²¹/

Note:

• keu3 - vernacular;
• ku3 - literary.

• Southern Pinghua
  • (Nanning Pinghua, Tingzi)
    • Jyutping++: hu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hu⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹khu
    • MiniDict: khu^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹khu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰu⁵³/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁵khou
    • MiniDict: khou^去
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kʰəu⁵²³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: ku⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu⁴⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khuH

Rime
Character	庫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦故切
Baxter	khuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰuoH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰuoH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰoH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰɔH/
Li Rong	/kʰoH/
Wang Li	/kʰuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰˤa-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰaːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kù
Middle Chinese	‹ khuH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰˁa-s/
English	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	庫
Reading #	1/1
No.	1314
Phonetic component	車
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	絝
Old Chinese	/*kʰaːs/

Definitions

庫

1. warehouse; storehouse; armory
   • 1996, 《新標點和合本》 [Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation], 聯合聖經公會, 路加福音 [Luke] 12:24:

     你想烏鴉，也不種也不收，又沒有倉又沒有庫，神尚且養活牠。你們比飛鳥是何等地貴重呢！ [MSC, trad.]
     你想乌鸦，也不种也不收，又没有仓又没有库，神尚且养活它。你们比飞鸟是何等地贵重呢！ [MSC, simp.]

     Nǐ xiǎng wūyā, yě bù zhǒng yě bù shōu, yòu méiyǒu cāng yòu méiyǒu kù, Shén shàngqiě yǎnghuó tā. Nǐmen bǐ fēiniǎo shì héděng de guìzhòng ne! [Pinyin]

     Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds! [World English Bible]

2. (physics) short for 庫侖／库仑 (kùlún, “coulomb (unit of electrical charge)”)
3. (programming) library
4. a surname, Ku

Descendants

• → Mongolian: хүү (xüü)

Compounds

• 人才庫 / 人才库 (réncáikù)
• 倉庫 / 仓库 (cāngkù)
• 備安庫 / 备安库
• 入庫 / 入库 (rùkù)
• 內庫 / 内库
• 公庫 / 公库
• 冷庫 / 冷库 (lěngkù)
• 冷藏倉庫 / 冷藏仓库
• 冷藏庫 / 冷藏库 (lěngcángkù)
• 努庫阿洛法 / 努库阿洛法 (Nǔkù'āluòfǎ)
• 合作金庫 / 合作金库
• 吉爾庫克 / 吉尔库克
• 哈拉庫圖 / 哈拉库图
• 四庫 / 四库
• 四庫全書 / 四库全书 (Sìkù Quánshū)
• 四行倉庫 / 四行仓库
• 國庫 / 国库 (guókù)
• 國庫券 / 国库券 (guókùquàn)
• 土庫 / 土库 (tǔkù)
• 土庫曼 / 土库曼 (Tǔkùmàn)
• 塔什庫爾干 / 塔什库尔干 (Tǎshíkù'ěrgān)
• 寶庫 / 宝库 (bǎokù)
• 寺庫 / 寺库
• 巴庫 / 巴库 (Bākù)
• 府庫 / 府库 (fǔkù)
• 庫侖 / 库仑 (kùlún)
• 庫侖定律 / 库仑定律
• 庫倫 / 库伦 (kùlún)
• 庫兵 / 库兵
• 庫券 / 库券
• 庫勒山 / 库勒山
• 庫司 / 库司
• 庫吏 / 库吏
• 庫大使 / 库大使
• 庫存 / 库存 (kùcún)
• 庫平 / 库平
• 庫德 / 库德 (Kùdé)
• 庫房 / 库房 (kùfáng)
• 庫拉木勒克 / 库拉木勒克 (Kùlāmùlèkè)
• 庫木巴希 / 库木巴希 (Kùmùbāxī)
• 庫爾勒 / 库尔勒 (Kù'ěrlè)
• 庫爾河 / 库尔河
• 庫狄 / 库狄
• 庫穆塔格 / 库穆塔格
• 庫米什 / 库米什 (Kùmǐshí)
• 庫緞 / 库缎
• 庫藏 / 库藏
• 庫車 / 库车 (Kùchē)
• 庫部 / 库部
• 庫里爾臺 / 库里尔台
• 庫銀 / 库银 (kùyín)
• 庫頁島 / 库页岛 (Kùyè Dǎo)
• 德基水庫 / 德基水库
• 思想庫 / 思想库 (sīxiǎngkù)
• 文庫 / 文库 (wénkù)
• 智庫 / 智库 (zhìkù)
• 書庫 / 书库 (shūkù)
• 曾文水庫 / 曾文水库
• 樓庫 / 楼库
• 正庫 / 正库
• 武庫 / 武库
• 水庫 / 水库 (shuǐkù)
• 油庫 / 油库 (yóukù)
• 火藥庫 / 火药库
• 燒箱庫 / 烧箱库
• 瓊庫勒 / 琼库勒 (Qióngkùlè)
• 白河水庫 / 白河水库
• 皮解庫 / 皮解库
• 盤庫 / 盘库
• 眼庫 / 眼库
• 石門水庫 / 石门水库
• 管庫 / 管库
• 翡翠水庫 / 翡翠水库
• 腦庫 / 脑库 (nǎokù)
• 腿庫 / 腿库 (thúi-khò͘) (Min Nan)
• 色格孜庫勒 / 色格孜库勒 (Sègézī Kùlè)
• 蓋孜庫木 / 盖孜库木 (Gàizīkùmù)
• 薩利吉勒干南庫勒 / 萨利吉勒干南库勒 (Sàlìjílègānnánkùlè)
• 藩庫 / 藩库
• 血庫 / 血库 (xuèkù)
• 行庫 / 行库
• 解典庫 / 解典库
• 解庫 / 解库
• 語料庫 / 语料库 (yǔliàokù)
• 資料庫 / 资料库 (zīliàokù)
• 質庫 / 质库 (zhìkù)
• 車庫 / 车库 (chēkù)
• 軍火庫 / 军火库
• 達見水庫 / 达见水库
• 金庫 / 金库 (jīnkù)
• 銀庫 / 银库 (yínkù)
• 長生庫 / 长生库
• 阿依庫勒 / 阿依库勒 (Āyīkùlè)
• 阿洪魯庫木 / 阿洪鲁库木 (Āhóng Lǔkùmù)
• 雅庫次克 / 雅库次克
• 零庫存 / 零库存
• 題庫 / 题库 (tíkù)

Japanese

Kanji

庫

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. warehouse

Readings

• Go-on: く (ku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: く (ku, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: くら (kura, 庫)

Compounds

Compounds

• 庫裏(くり) (kuri)
• 格納庫(かくのうこ) (kakunōko)
• 金庫(きんこ) (kinko)
• 国庫(こっこ) (kokko)
• 在庫(ざいこ) (zaiko)
• 車庫(しゃこ) (shako)
• 神庫(じんこ) (jinko)
• 倉庫(ぞうこ) (zōko)
• 弾薬庫(だんやくこ) (dan'yakuko)
• 貯蔵庫(ちょぞうこ) (chozōko)
• 艇庫(ていこ) (teiko)
• 入庫(にゅうこ) (nyūko)
• 兵庫(ひょうご) (Hyōgo)
• 文庫(ぶんこ) (bunko)
• 宝庫(ほうこ) (hōko)
• 防湿庫(ぼうしつこ) (bōshitsuko)
• 冷蔵庫(れいぞうこ) (reizōko)
• 冷凍庫(れいとうこ) (reitōko)

References

• “^△庫”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

庫 (eumhun 곳집 고 (gotjip go))

1. hanja form^? of 고 (“warehouse, storehouse”)
2. hanja form^? of 고 (“armory”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 냉장고 (冷藏庫, naengjanggo, “refrigerator”)
• 냉동고 (冷凍庫, naengdonggo, “freezer”)
• 차고 (車庫, chago, “garage”)
• 무기고 (武器庫, mugigo, “armoury; arsenal”)

Vietnamese

Han character

庫: Hán Việt readings: khố
庫: Nôm readings: kho, khó, khố, khò

1. chữ Nôm form of kho (“warehouse; storehouse; depot”)
2. chữ Nôm form of khó (“difficult; tough”)
3. chữ Nôm form of khố (“loincloth”)

Compounds

• 呐庫 (nói khó)
• 庫巾 (khó khăn)