hanzillion: 箱 = xiāng = box, trunk, chestThis one is pretty straightforward, it’s all about bo

hanzillion:

箱 = xiāng = box, trunk, chest

This one is pretty straightforward, it’s all about boxes or box-like shapes! 

行李箱 (xíng li xiāng) is a suitcase, 收件箱 (shōu jiàn xiāng) is your inbox and 蜂箱 (fēng xiāng) is a beehive, or the box with bees.   Sometimes, building these words is done very pragmatically, for instance, 烤箱 (kǎo xiāng) is the “roasting box” aka the oven, and 冰箱 (bīng xiāng) is the icebox… aka, the fridge!

This sign came from a letter box that my friend Iris shot in Hong Kong. Can you guess how to write letter box? It’s just putting together the characters for letter + box: 信箱 (xìn xiāng). Neat! 

a fun blog for typography and hanzi collection~ if you ever want all the Old Dirt on a character throw it into zdic, it’ll even give you oracle bone versions if it has one