- 荷物 — luggage / baggage
- 出荷 — shipping / dispatch
- 入荷 — receipt of goods
- 荷台 — truck bed / loading platform
- 重荷 — heavy load / burden
- 負荷 — load / stress (technical/physical)
- 担荷 — carrying a load
- 荷受 — goods received
The kanji 荷 combines 艹 (grass/plant radical, often related to items carried) with 何 (phonetic). It originally referred to plants carried or transported and later expanded to mean baggage, cargo, or burden in general.
