Chinese symbol for “depot”
仓库
cāng kù
Traditional: 倉庫
depot; storehouse; warehouse
The closest CC-CEDICT match for depot is 仓库 (cāng kù), defined as: depot; storehouse; warehouse.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “depot”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 车厂 (車廠) | chē chǎng | (bus, train etc) depot; car factory or repair shop |
| 补给站 (補給站) | bǔ jǐ zhàn | depot; supply station |
| 厂 (廠) | chǎng | factory; yard |
| 厂子 (廠子) | chǎng zi | (coll.) factory; mill |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 仓库.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仓储 (倉儲) | cāng chǔ | to store in a warehouse |
| 仓促 (倉促) | cāng cù | all of a sudden; hurriedly |
| 粮仓 (糧倉) | liáng cāng | granary; barn |
| 仓鼠 (倉鼠) | cāng shǔ | hamster |
| 持仓 (持倉) | chí cāng | (finance) to hold one's securities (rather than selling them) |
| 数据库 (數據庫) | shù jù kù | (computing) database |
| 库存 (庫存) | kù cún | property or cash held in reserve; stock; inventory |
| 水库 (水庫) | shuǐ kù | reservoir; measure word: 座 (zuò) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “depot”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.