- 荷物 — luggage; baggage
- 出荷 — shipping; dispatch
- 入荷 — receipt of goods
- 荷台 — truck bed; loading platform
- 重荷 — heavy load; burden
- 負荷 — load; stress (technical/physical)
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The kanji 荷 combines 艹 (grass/plant radical, often related to items carried) with 何 (phonetic). It originally referred to plants carried or transported and later expanded to mean baggage, cargo, or burden in general.
荷物が 多くて大変でした。
It was tough because I had so much luggage.
この荷物を 車に運びましょう。
Let’s carry this load to the car.