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

  • 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.

  • 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.
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