廠
workshop
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Readings
On'yomi
- ショウ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
廠 centers on a place where skilled work or manufacturing happens: a workshop, factory, or industrial site.
Most common words using 廠
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Etymology
廠 combines 广 (building on a cliff or shelter) with 敞, which likely contributes the sound and the idea of openness or a wide space, together suggesting a large open building used as a workshop.
Meaning mnemonic
Under the wide shelter 广, the inner part 敞 looks like a busy open space with tools and activity: a workshop where things are made.
Reading mnemonic
For ショウ, imagine a big workshop where they make shoes: shoe -> ショウ, and the factory is full of shoemakers.