Kanji1 / 15
蔵 kanji
storehouse, hide, own, have, possess
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 15
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ゾウソウ
Kun readings
くらおさめるかくれる
Variant forms
匨藏Words with 蔵
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —貯蔵庫storehouse; bunker; silo
- —冷蔵室cold room; refrigerated room; cold compartment (e.g. of a refrigerator)
- —蔵書印ownership mark; ownership stamp; bookplate
- —収蔵庫storage room
- —胎蔵界Garbhadhatu; Womb Realm; Matrix Realm; Garbhadhatu Mandala; Womb Realm Mandala; Matrix Realm Mandala
- —蔵するto store; to contain
- —蔵骨器funerary urn; cinerary urn
- —石地蔵stone statue of Jizō (often found along roads); taciturn person; person uninterested in romance
- —如来蔵tathagatagarbha (buddha-womb, the potential within all living things to become a buddha)
- —六地蔵the Six Ksitigarbhas (one for each of the six realms)
- —収蔵品collected item; artifact (in museum, etc.)
- —貯蔵物stores; stock; reserves; cache; inventory
- —地蔵盆Jizō Festival; child-focused religious festival, in which Jizō statues are decorated, esp. in Kyoto; held on August 23-24
- —要冷蔵requiring refrigeration
- —地蔵堂temple hall with a Kshitigarbha (Jizō) image
- —温蔵庫heating cabinet; warming drawer
- —功徳蔵one's accumulated merit; treasure house of merit; Amithaba (Buddha)
- —貯蔵穴storage pit (esp. Jomon to Yayoi periods)
- —個人蔵held by a private individual; (in the) ownership of a private individual
- —旧蔵者former owner (e.g. of a collection)