Word Meaning お蔵

おくら okura

お蔵 is read as おくら (okura) and means rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate.

Meaning

English

  1. rice storehouse of the Edo shogunate
  2. shelving (a play, movie, etc.)
  3. closing down
  4. cancelling
  5. canceling
  6. shelf (i.e. "on the shelf")

Reading

Kana

おくら

Romaji

okura

Writing Variants

  • お倉 おくら okura

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 18 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 81203 Priority M

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

お蔵入り

おくらいり

putting in storage

お地蔵さん

おじぞうさん

Jizo (esp. statue)

大蔵

おおくら

Ministry of Finance

くら

warehouse

冷蔵

れいぞう

cold storage

内蔵

ないぞう

internal (e.g. disk)

所蔵

しょぞう

(in one's) possession

地蔵

じぞう

Kshitigarbha (bodhisattva who looks over children, travellers and the underworld)

貯蔵

ちょぞう

storage

埋蔵

まいぞう

burying in the ground

収蔵

しゅうぞう

garnering

土蔵

どぞう

storehouse with thick (earthen) walls