HSK 6 · Places

仓库 cāngkù “warehouse” in Chinese

Traditional 倉庫

What 仓库 means

  1. warehouse
  2. storehouse
  3. depot

How to say 仓库

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale仓cāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale库kù4th tone, falling

仓库 in a sentence

  1. 是谁忘了把仓库的门锁上？

    Shì shéi wàng le bǎ cāngkù de mén suǒ shàng?

    Who forgot to lock the warehouse door?

    Sentence #679835 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 暂时藏在仓库里好了。

    Zànshí cáng zài cāngkù lǐ hǎo le.

    Just hide it in the warehouse for now.

    Sentence #1667237 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 汤姆在仓库前等玛丽。

    Tāngmǔ zài cāngkù qián děng Mǎlì.

    Tom waited for Mary in front of the warehouse.

    Sentence #6630019 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 仓库 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 仓 (cāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
仓cāngbarn
  • 人person · rén
  • 㔾seal · jié
The character 库 (kù) with each of its parts in a different colour
库kùwarehouse
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 车cart · chē

How to write 仓库

仓 4 strokes · 库 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

仓库 (cāngkù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 仓库 (cāngkù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 仓库

Words with 仓

仓促cāngcù · hurried

Words with 库

车库chēkù · garage

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FAQs

仓库 (cāngkù) means “warehouse” or “storehouse”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cāngkù: cāng with a 1st tone, then kù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 仓库 is written 倉庫. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cangku with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 仓库 from the suggestions. Typing cangku into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
仓库 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.