袋 — meaning in English

English meaning

• bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
• pouch noun A small bag, often closed with a drawstring or zipper.
• sack noun A large bag, typically of coarse material, used for carrying or storing bulk goods.

Senses

袋 is used for these senses in English:

• bag A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
• bag (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
• plastic bag A type of packaging made of thin, flexible, plastic film, starch, or plastic textile, used for containing and transporting food, waste, and consumer goods. (This entry is a translation hub.)
• pouch A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
• sack A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

bag — full definition

1. noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
2. verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.

pouch — full definition

1. noun A small bag, often closed with a drawstring or zipper.
2. noun A pocket of skin on an animal, such as a kangaroo, used to carry young.
3. verb To put something into a pouch, or to carry it that way.

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