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Kanji Detail for 墳 - "burial mound, tomb"
墳
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Meaning
墳 means "burial mound, tomb." Also associated with embankment.
Burial mound - An earth mound over a grave.
Tomb - A place of burial.
Embankment - A raised earth structure.
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Words using 墳
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古墳
こふん
ancient burial mound; barrow; tumulus
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古墳
こふん
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Tattoo check: 墳
- Verified meaning: burial mound, tomb
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Also carries these associations: embankment
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.
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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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Sentences including 墳
The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.
The Takamatsuzuka burial mound is located in Asukamura, Nara prefecture.
In China too glass is being excavated out of graves from the Era of Warring States.
直径23m(下段)及び18m(上段)、高さ5ｍの二段式の円墳である。
It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).
Sentences from Japanese classical masterpieces
More kanji with the radical 土 (tsuchi・tsuchihen・dohen)
- 土 earth, saturday, local
- 圧 press, pressure, suppress
- 在 to exist, to reside
- 圭 jade tablet
- 地 earth, land, ground
- 坂 slope, hill
- 均 equal, level
- 坊 boy, monk
- 坐 to sit, seat
- 坑 pit, hole
- 坦 flat
- 坪 unit, tsubo
- 垂 to hang, to drop, to bestow
- 型 type, model, form
- 垣 fence, hedge, wall
- 城 castle, citadel, wall
- 埋 to bury, to fill
- 埜 field, countryside
- 域 region, boundary
- 埴 clay
- 執 to take
- 培 cultivate, foster, nurture
- 基 foundation, basis, base
- 埼 cape, promontory, saitama
- 堀 moat, canal, ditch
- 堂 hall, magnificent, dignified