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Kanji Detail for 墳 - "burial mound, tomb, grave"

  • Meaning

    墳 means "burial mound, tomb, grave."

    1. Burial mound - An earth mound over a grave.

    2. Tomb - A place of burial.

    3. Embankment - A raised earth structure.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    tomb; mound

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    grave, mound; bulge; bulging

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    grave; tomb; CL:座[zuo4]; embankment; mound; ancient book

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    grave, mound, bulge; bulging

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

    A large, high grave. | A riverbank. (Book of Odes) "Following the banks of the Ru River." | Great. The books of Fuxi, Shennong, and the Yellow Emperor are called 三墳. Hence ancient books are called 墳典. | Rich, fertile soil. 黑墳 (black fertile), 赤埴墳 (red clay fertile). See (Book of Documents, Tribute of Yu). All speaking of the fertility of the soil.
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