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荷物
Meaning in Englishluggage, baggage
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What it means
What does 荷物 mean? It denotes the general concept of items that are carried or transported, including personal belongings and shipments, and it is used in travel, hospitality, and logistics contexts.
Main meanings
- personal belongings and luggage carried by a person
- parcels or shipments handled in transport and courier services
- figurative burden or responsibility placed on someone
How to use it
Used across travel, shopping, and logistics. In casual speech it refers to bags and belongings; in formal contexts it can refer to shipments or cargo. Common grammatical patterns include 荷物を持つ to carry 荷物 and 荷物が多い to describe many bags.
Variants and close terms
- 手荷物 — carry-on luggage (てにもつ)
- 貨物 — cargo, freight (かもつ)
- 重荷 — heavy burden or load (おもに)
Composition
- 荷: carry, load
- 物: thing, object
- When combined, 荷物 denotes items carried or transported, i.e., luggage or freight
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Noun (名詞)
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