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Kanji Detail for 葬 - "to bury, funeral, burial"

葬

  • Meaning

    葬 means "to bury, funeral, burial."

    1. Bury - To inter in a grave; to lay to rest.

    2. Funeral - The ceremony for the dead.

  • Words using 葬

    • 葬儀 そうぎ Listen funeral; funeral service
    • 社葬 しゃそう Listen company funeral
    • 葬式 そうしき Listen funeral
    • 埋葬 まいそう Listen burial
    • 葬祭 そうさい Listen funerals and ceremonial occasions
    • 火葬 かそう Listen cremation
    • 冠婚葬祭 かんこんそうさい Listen important ceremonial occasions in family relationships
    • 葬る ほうむる Listen to bury; to inter; to entomb

  • Four-character idioms with 葬

    • 冠婚葬祭 かんこんそうさい Listen important ceremonial occasions in family relationships

  • Tattoo check: 葬

    • Verified meaning: to bury, funeral, burial
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はふり)

    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 葬

    Surnames 葬(はふり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    interment; bury; shelve

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    bury, inter

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    old variant of 葬[zang4]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to bury, to inter

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

    Burying a coffin in the ground is called 葬. Such as 葬地 (burial ground), 葬事 (funeral matters). All concealment of corpses is called 葬. Such as 火葬 (cremation), 鳥葬 (sky burial), 葬身魚腹 (buried in a fish's belly) and the like. | To bury. 葬花 (burying flowers). Causing someone to be convicted of a crime is also called 葬送.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    soh(ソウ) ソウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    houmu.ru(ほうむ-る) ほうむ-る

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    to bury funeral burial interment cemetery cremation grave mourning memorial

Sentences including 葬

  • I didn't attend his funeral.

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