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Trad. 倉位
- (logistics) storage location
- place to store goods
- (finance) position
Trad. 倉敷
- Kurashiki, city in Okayama Prefecture 岡山縣|冈山县[Gang1 shan1 xian4], Japan
Trad. 倉頡
- Cang Jie, legendary scribe of the Yellow Emperor and inventor of Chinese writing
- (computing) Cangjie input method
Trad. 票倉
- safe seat (in an election); stronghold (for a political party or candidate); a district in which a majority of voters consistently votes for a particular party or candidate
Trad. 陳倉
- ancient name of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi
- Chencang district of Baoji City
Trad. 倒倉
- to transfer grain from a store (e.g. to sun it)
- voice breaking (of male opera singer in puberty)
Trad. 鐮倉
- Kamakura city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县[Shen2 nai4 chuan1 xian4], Japan
Trad. 倉山區
- Cangshan, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian
Trad. 太倉市
- Taicang, a county-level city in Suzhou City 蘇州市|苏州市[Su1 zhou1 Shi4], Jiangsu
Trad. 陳倉區
- Chencang District of Baoji City 寶雞市|宝鸡市[Bao3 ji1 Shi4], Shaanxi
Trad. 老鼠倉
- (finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds a position in a security at low prices using personal funds, then uses public funds to drive up the price
Trad. 東倉里
- Dongchang-ni, North Korean missile launch site on Yellow Sea, 70 km from Chinese border
Trad. 東倉鴞
- (bird species of China) eastern barn owl (Tyto javanica)
Trad. 正倉院
- Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeathed to the Tōdai-ji temple by the Japanese emperor Shōmu, who died in 756
Trad. 暗渡陳倉
- lit. secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu)
- fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- to cheat under cover of a diversion
Trad. 倉皇出逃
- to run off in a great panic (idiom)
Trad. 顆粒歸倉
- to gather all the harvested grain into the granary; to harvest every single grain
Trad. 清倉查庫
- to make an inventory of warehouses
Trad. 岩倉使節團
- the Iwakura mission (Japanese diplomatic and exploratory mission to US and Europe of 1871)
Trad. 清倉大甩賣
- clearance sale
- fire sale
Trad. 坎貝爾侏儒倉鼠
- Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
Trad. 明修棧道，暗渡陳倉
- lit. repair the plank road by day while secretly crossing the Wei River 渭河[Wei4 He2] at Chencang (idiom, refers to a stratagem used by Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] in 206 BC against Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽[Xiang4 Yu3] of Chu)
- fig. to feign one thing while doing another
- to cheat under cover of a diversion