- 荷物 — luggage, baggage
- 出荷 — shipping, dispatch
- 入荷 — receipt of goods
- 荷台 — loading platform
- 重荷 — heavy load, burden
- 負荷 — load, burden (technical)
The kanji 荷 combines the grass radical 艹 (often related to plants or items to carry) with the phonetic part 何. It originally referred to plants carried or transported, and by extension came to mean loads or freight 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.
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