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葬

Burial
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingソウ
Kun readingほうむ.る

Verbs with «葬»

葬る

Meanings

  1. burial
  2. bury
  3. intermentRtK
  4. shelve
  1. funeral

Popular Usage

葬式

Radicals and components

Radical艸grass
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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flowers (艹) · death · bones (骨) · one (一) · ceiling (冖) · evening · spoon (匕) · sitting on the ground · two hands

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 879

Compound words

彼はこの墓地に埋葬されている。
He was buried in this graveyard.tatoeba
彼の葬式に行かなかった事を後悔している。
I feel bad about not having gone to his funeral.tatoeba
彼の葬式には大勢の人が参列した。
A great many people attended his funeral.tatoeba
彼の葬式には出なかった。
I didn't attend his funeral.tatoeba

Stroke Order

12 strokes

Bury. 艹 (grass) + 死 (the dead) + 廾 (hands) — hands laying the dead in the grass. 葬式 — funeral.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 葬

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step