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墓

Grave
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingボ
Kun readingはか

Meanings

  1. graveRtK
  2. tomb
  1. gravesite

Radicals and components

Radical土earth
Components
How it's built
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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graveyard · flowers (艹) · sun (日) · day (日) · large (大) · St. Bernard (犬) · soil (土) · dirt (土) · ground (土)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 246

Compound words

彼はこの墓地に埋葬されている。
He was buried in this graveyard.tatoeba
全地球は有名人の墳墓である。
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.tatoeba
若い頃墓地をよく歩いたものだ。
I used to walk in the cemetery in my youth.tatoeba
彼は自ら墓穴を掘ってるね。
He is digging his own grave.tatoeba

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Grave. 莫 (sunset) + 土 (earth) — where a person goes into the earth.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 墓

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