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墓
JLPT N1 SL5 13 strokes Frequency: #1337

Meanings

Grave, Tomb

Radicals

土

Decomposition

⿱莫土

Etymology

Pictophonetic: earth

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 13

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left
2 vertical right-to-left
3 vertical right-to-left
4 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
5 corner bottom-right-to-top-left
6 horizontal left-to-right
7 horizontal left-to-right
8 horizontal bottom-to-top
9 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left
10 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left
11 horizontal bottom-to-top
12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left
13 horizontal bottom-to-top
On'yomi (Chinese reading)
ボ bo
Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)
はか haka

Words Using This Kanji

45 words total
Other (20 words)
墓泥棒 はかどろぼう

grave robber

ゆりかごから墓場まで ゆりかごからはかばまで

from the cradle to the grave

墓園 ぼえん

cemetery

墳丘墓 ふんきゅうぼ

tomb embedded in a Yayoi period barrow

支石墓 しせきぼ

dolmen

再葬墓 さいそうぼ

secondary grave (usu. for disinterred and washed bones)

墓に布団は着せられぬ はかにふとんはきせられぬ

it is too late to show filial piety once your parents are dead

墓域 ぼいき

cemetery area

墓荒らし はかあらし

grave-robbing

御墓 みはか

imperial tomb

夫婦墓 めおとばか

husband and wife tomb

周堤墓 しゅうていぼ

grave-site with circular embankment (Jomon period)

墓じまい はかじまい

dismantling a (family) tomb

参り墓 まいりばか

visitation grave

両墓制 りょうぼせい

double-grave system

埋め墓 うめばか

burial grave

捨て墓 すてばか

grave for the body of a deceased person

横穴墓 よこあなぼ

tunnel tomb (Kofun period)

墓上 ぼじょう

on a grave

墓室 ぼしつ

burial chamber