Meanings

Interment, Bury, Shelve

Radicals

艹

Decomposition

⿱艹⿱死廾

Etymology

Ideographic: A corpse 死 laid 廾 to rest under the grass 艹

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 12

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 horizontal bottom-right-to-top-left

5 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

6 corner top-right-to-bottom-left

7 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

8 diagonal right-to-left

9 curve bottom-right-to-top-left

10 horizontal bottom-to-top

11 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

12 vertical bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソウ sou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ほうむ houmu

Words Using This Kanji

69 words total

Other (9 words)

海葬かいそう

burial at sea

葬式鉄そうしきてつ

railfans who gather at the decommissioning of a train or line

funeral

state funeral

direct cremation

boat burial

the entombed

funeral committee

hearse

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