正倉院 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 正仓院 zhēngcāngyuàn ㄓㄥ ㄘㄤ ㄩㄢˋ Shōsō-in, a timber structure in Nara, Japan, built to house hundreds of artifacts bequeathed to the Tōdai-ji temple by the Japanese emperor Shōmu, who died in 756 Character by character 正(zhēng)first month of the lunar year 倉(cāng)barn 院(yuàn)courtyard A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0