Memory phrase for the Kanji: 葬

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hōmuru

Top & bottom: plant 艹, middle: death 死 (Below the earth 一 are the bare bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕)

Between the plants the dead are buried. (Or: Like a sunset 莫 of the dead 死 is the: funeral.)

艹	plant, grass	Shows two plants growing through the ground, simple variation of 艸.
歹	bare bone	Bones 歹 (vertebrae or rib) or variant of sitting person 夕,匕 under ground 一.
莫	to go down, to set	The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 (= as long shadows) at sunset. - Please be aware that this very similar radical stands for the sunrise.
匕	sitting person	The Radical sajinohi* means "spoon". But due to its appearance is typically used as a "sitting person". In few cases however, it is understood as claws (i.e. of a bear).*
廾	two hands	Two hands 屮 (with the fingers 山 towards the top) simplified and combined.

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葬る	ほうむる	to bury, to inter, to entomb, to consign to oblivion, to shelve
葬式	そうしき	funeral

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