■ radical

kù

armory

How it’s built

Simplified form of 庫. Phonosemantic compound. 广 represents the meaning and 車 represents the sound.

广

meaning

roof; (simp.) wide

车

sound

chariot; car; vehicle — The pronunciation of 庫 was similar to 車 in old Chinese, but they no longer sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes.

Appears in

Characters that use 库 as a component, most common first.

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