CJK Unified Ideograph 廥

It names a granary for fodder and provisions. Dictionaries define why 廥 was used first by purpose: a depot for straw and fodder, then grain, firewood and general stores. As a verb it means putting supplies into storage. That concrete sense explains old passages about a depot burning or officials opening stores in famine.

Qin-system bamboo-slip evidence gives the 廥 earliest attestation; the received Shuowen definition later fixes it as straw and fodder storage. The classical astronomical use is 廥積, a star-name linked to stored hay or grain.

Keep 廥 and 廩 distinct

廥 and 廩 overlap around granaries, but they are not variants. 廥 is built with 广 plus 會 as sound element; 廩 belongs to the 㐭/稟 line and centers on rice, grain stores and public grain issue. The link is a semantic neighborhood, not shared ancestry.

Placement controls the reading. In 廥廩 or 廥積 it names stored provisions; in 廥之 it is verbal, “store it.” Commentary on the Shi Ji glosses 邯鄲廥 as a storehouse or stable, so stable fits that passage without changing the wider storage sense.