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Kanji Detail for 墓 - "grave, tomb, cemetery"

  • Meaning

    墓 means "grave, tomb, cemetery."

    1. Grave - A burial place; a tomb.

    2. Tomb - A vault for the dead; a sepulcher.

    3. Cemetery - A burial ground; a graveyard.

  • Words using

    • 墓地 ぼち Listen cemetery; graveyard
    • 墓参り はかまいり Listen visit to a grave
    • 墓石 ぼせき Listen tombstone; gravestone
  • Tattoo check:

    • Verified meaning: grave, tomb, cemetery
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はかざき, はかもり)
    • Traditionally considered inauspicious in names — Japanese readers may find it an unlucky choice. Check the meanings above carefully before using it on skin.

    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

    Surnames (はかざき)Listen (はかもり)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    grave; tomb

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    grave, tomb

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    grave; tomb; mausoleum

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    grave, tomb

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

    A grave. Raised earth mounds are called 墳; flat ones are called 墓.
  • Onyomi

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  • Kunyomi

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  • Strokes

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Sentences including

  • I visited my father's grave.

  • We visited our father's grave.

  • The room was as still as the grave.

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