葬

See also 塟

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 茻 (“grass”) + 死 (“dead person”) – bury the dead 死 in the grass 茻. Top is now grass radical (艹), while bottom is simplified to 廾, hence graphically 艹 + 死 + 廾.

Han character

葬 (radical 140 艸+9, in Chinese 15 strokes, in Japanese 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿一心廿 (TMPT), four-corner 4444₁, composition ⿳艹死廾)

1. bury, inter

Derived characters

• 髒

References

• KangXi: page 1046, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31448
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3246, character 2
• Unihan data for U+846C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

葬 (Yale jong3)

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Japanese

Kanji

葬 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: ほうむる (houmuru)

Compounds

• 葬式 (そうしき, sōshiki): funeral
• 葬儀 (そうぎ, sōgi): funeral service
• 土葬 (どそう, dosō): burial, interment
• 水葬 (すいそう, suisō): sea burial
• 鳥葬 (ちょうそう, chōsō): vulture burial
• 火葬 (かそう, kasō): cremation

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Korean

Hanja

葬 (hangeul 장, revised jang, McCune-Reischauer chang, Yale cang)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

葬 (pinyin zàng (zang4), Wade-Giles tsang⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

葬 (táng)