荷に

に

○

Common word›JLPTN1›Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

Physical items being carried, transported, or shipped. Common in compounds like 荷物 and 積み荷.

トラックに荷にを積つむ。

Load cargo onto the truck.

駅えきで大おおきな荷にを持もっている人ひとを見みかけた。

I saw someone carrying a large piece of baggage at the station.

Metaphorical weight or duty, often used in set phrases like 荷が重い (the burden is heavy) or 荷を下ろす (to be relieved of a responsibility).

その仕し事ごとは私わたしには荷にが重おもすぎる。
That job is too heavy a burden for me.
彼かれは長なが年ねんの責せき任にんという荷にを下おろした。
He was relieved of the burden of years of responsibility.

荷にを運はこぶto carry a load or cargo
船ふねで荷にを運はこぶ。
They carry cargo by ship.
荷にを積つむto load cargo onto a vehicle or vessel
トラックに荷にを積つんだ。
I loaded the cargo onto the truck.
荷にになるto become a burden
彼かれの存そん在ざいが荷にになることはなかった。
His presence never became a burden.

荷に物もつN5sense 1
荷物 is the everyday word for luggage, packages, or baggage, while 荷 is more often used in compounds or in abstract, collective senses of cargo.
積つみ荷に sense 1
積み荷 specifically refers to cargo that has been loaded onto a vehicle or vessel, while 荷 is the general term for any load or baggage.
負ふ担たんN2sense 2
負担 explicitly means a duty or burden one must bear, whereas 荷 more broadly covers both physical loads and metaphorical burdens.

The kanji 荷 combines the grass radical 艹 and 何 (what), originally depicting a load carried on the shoulder. The reading に is native Japanese.

packing; packing up; crating or baling for transport

heavy load; heavy burden; heavy freight · heavy responsibility; mental burden; encumbrance

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