Memory phrase for the Kanji: 葬
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葬 |
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Kanji-Trainer
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Meaning
| bury, funeral, interment
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Pronunciation |
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hōmuru |
Explanation |
Top & bottom: plant 艹, middle: death 死 (Below the earth 一 are the bare bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕) |
Mnemonic |
Between the plants the dead are buried. (Or: Like a sunset 莫 of the dead 死 is the: funeral.)
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Radicals
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艹
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plant, grass | Shows two plants growing through the ground, simple variation of 艸. |
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歹
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bare bone | Bones 歹 (vertebrae or rib) or variant of sitting person 夕,匕 under ground 一. |
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莫
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to go down, to set | Please be aware that this very similar radical  stands for the sunrise. |
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匕
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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). |
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廾
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two hands | Two hands 屮 (with the fingers 山 towards the top) simplified and combined. |
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!
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Vocabulary
| 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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