Onyomi: タイ, ダイ · Kunyomi: ふくろ · Meanings: bag, pouch, sack
Kanji for bag, pouch, sack
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袋 has the clothing radical 衣 at the bottom, because a bag is something made from cloth. On the top is 代, which can mean substitute or replace. In the past, cloth was folded and sewn to hold things. Clothing material shaped to carry items became the meaning bag.
Cloth shaped to carry things becomes a bag — 袋.
Imagine taking cloth from your clothes (衣) and sewing it into a small pouch. That cloth container you carry is 袋.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 袋 | ふくろ | bag, sack, pouch | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 袋 | たい | counter for things inside a bag | Suffix, Counter |
| 袋小路 | ふくろこうじ | blind alley, cul-de-sac, dead end street | Noun |
| 袋物 | ふくろもの | bags and pouches, bags | Noun |
| 袋のネズミ | ふくろのねずみ | trapped with no way of escape, rat in a bag | Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Noun |
| 袋手長猿 | ふくろてながざる | siamang (species of gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus) | Noun |
| 袋狼 | ふくろおおかみ | Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus), thylacine, Tasmanian wolf | Noun |
| 袋狐 | ふくろぎつね | common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) | Noun |
| 袋土竜 | ふくろもぐら | southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) | Noun |
| 袋八目 | ふくろやつめ | pouched lamprey (Geotria australis), wide-mouthed lamprey | Noun |