墓

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 莫 + semantic 土

Han character

墓 (radical 32 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大土 (TAKG), four-corner 4410₄)

1. grave, tomb

Related characters

• 募 幕 慕
• 模 膜

References

• KangXi: page 238, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5431
• Dae Jaweon: page 476, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 470, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5893

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Cantonese

Hanzi

墓 (Yale mou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

墓 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. grave; graveyard

Readings

• Goon: も (mo)
• Kan’on: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: はか (haka)
• Nanori: つか (tsuka)

Compounds

上墓 墓碣

墓誌銘 墓上

墓田 墓表

墓木已拱 墓地 (ぼち, bochi)

References

JIS: 4A68 Kuten: 4272 Shift JIS: 95E6 EUC-JP: CAE8 Frequency: 1337 Nelson: 4027

New Nelson: 1073 Halpern: 2332 Halpern Learners: 1505 Heisig: 231 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3k10.18

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Noun

墓 (hiragana はか, romaji haka)

1. a grave; a tomb

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Korean

Hanja

墓 (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

墓 (pinyin mù (mu4), Wade-Giles mu⁴)

Compounds

• 墓碑
• 墓道
• 墓地
• 墓碣
• 墓门
• 墓木
• 墓室
• 墓穴
• 墓园
• 墓葬
• 墓志

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Vietnamese

Han character

墓 (mộ, mô, mồ)