Kanji Detail for 俑 - "figurine, grieve"

俑

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
俑 means "figurine, grieve."
1. Figurine - A human figure buried with the dead.
2. Grieve - To mourn; to lament.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

effigy

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

wooden figure buried with dead

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

wooden figures buried with the dead

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

wooden figure buried with dead

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

Wooden burial figures. Commonly used in ancient times. (Mencius) "He who first made burial figures—will he have no descendants?" Meaning they were too lifelike, opening the way for later use of human burial sacrifices. Hence starting something bad is called 作俑.
Onyomi

toh(とう)

yoh(よう)

yuu
Kunyomi

ita.mu(いたむ)
Strokes

9 strokes
Radical

人亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)
Related Keywords
figurine human figure buried dead grieve mourn lament