荷

音読おんよみ:

訓読くんよみ:

画数かくすう: 10 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 艹(くさかんむり)

Meaning

Baggage / Load / Cargo / Freight

  • 荷物にもつ — luggage; baggage
  • 出荷しゅっか — shipping; dispatch
  • 入荷にゅうか — receipt of goods
  • 荷台にだい — truck bed; loading platform
  • 重荷おもに — heavy load; burden
  • 負荷ふか — load; stress (technical/physical)

The kanji 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.

荷物にもつおおくて大変たいへんでした。
It was tough because I had so much luggage.

この荷物にもつくるまはこびましょう。
Let’s carry this load to the car.

物
Creates
荷物にもつ — luggage / baggage
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