Today’s #kanji is 箱, which is listed under its semantic element of #たけかんむり（竹）. Its phonetic element is 相 but I have never used any words with 箱’s onyomi reading.
Meaning: a box
Reading: はこ（ばこ）
箱（はこ）: a box, a case, a crate, a carton; a railway carriage, an elevator
箱（はこ）入（い）り娘（むすめ）: an innocent girl of a good family, a naive girl who knows nothing of the world
箱（はこ）買（が）い: buying in bulk, bulk purchasing
お払（はら）い箱（ばこ）: dismissal, dumping, scrapping
お払い箱にする: to dismiss, to send packing, to give the axe to
お払い箱になる: to be dismissed, to be fired
次はお払い箱だぞ。You will get fired next time you do it.
空箱（からばこ）: an empty box
ごみ箱（ばこ）: a trash ca, a garbage box, a lietter box
重箱（ジュウばこ）: stacked boxees, a picnic box
重箱読み: a mixed reading of a kanji compound with the first character having a Chinese reading (onyomi) and the second a Japanese reading (kunyomi).
豚箱（ぶたばこ）: a jail cell, a lockup
筆箱（ふでばこ）: a pencil case, a brush box
本箱（ホンばこ）: a bookcase
Cf. 本棚: a bookshelf
- たけかんむり
