箱

box, chest, case, bin, railway car

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ソウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

はこ

Stroke Order

15 / 15

Information

Grade:3

Strokes:15

JLPT:N3

Frequency:1357

Vocabulary

ソウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
百葉箱	ヒャクヨウソウ	Stevenson screen (louvre-sided box housing for meteorological gauges); instrument shelter
書箱	ショソウ	bookcase

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
私書箱	ししょばこ	post office box
本箱	ほんばこ	bookcase
箱	はこ	box; case; chest; package; pack; crate; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building; man who carries a geisha's shamisen; receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces); counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
箱	ハコ	box; case; chest; package; pack; crate; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building; man who carries a geisha's shamisen; receptacle for human waste; feces (faeces); counter for boxes (or boxed objects)
投票箱	とうひょうばこ	ballot box

Visually Similar Kanji

These kanji are easily confused due to similar shapes

flute, clarinet, pipe, whistle, bagpipe, piccolo

turn, number in a series

scheme, plan, policy, step, means

enroll, domiciliary register, membership

inter-, mutual, together, each other, minister of state, councillor, aspect, phase, physiognomy

simplicity, brevity

token, sign, mark, tally, charm

shield, escutcheon, pretext

neck, counter for songs and poems

counter for articles