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Kanji Detail for 塚 - "mound, tumulus, grave"

塚

  • Meaning

    塚 means "mound, tumulus, grave."

    1. Mound - A small hill or pile of earth.

    2. Grave - A burial site; a tomb.

    3. Tumulus - An ancient burial mound.

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    • Verified meaning: mound, tumulus, grave
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ずか, つか, つかさき, つかざき)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 塚

    Surnames 塚(ずか)Listen 塚(つか)Listen 塚(つかさき)Listen 塚(つかざき)Listen 塚(もり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hillock; mound

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    cemetery; tomb, burial mound

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    burial mound (variant of 冢[zhong3])

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cemetery; tomb, burial mound

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    A high grave mound. Originally written as 冢. Commonly written as 塚. See "冢."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    choh(チョウ) チョウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    duka(でゅか) でゅか

    tsuka(つか) つか

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)

  • Related Keywords

    mound grave tumulus hillock barrow burial cairn earth embankment knoll pile tomb site soil

Sentences including 塚

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