墓

Translingual

Han character

墓 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大土 (TAKG), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱莫土)

Derived characters

• 𭂥, 𫮲, 𮁒

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		墓
simp. #		墓
alternative forms		圶 2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 墓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蟆	*mraː
鬕	*mraːɡs
饃	*maːl
模	*maː
摸	*maː, *maːɡ
嫫	*maː
謨	*maː
膜	*maː, *maːɡ
摹	*maː
暮	*maːɡs
慕	*maːɡs
募	*maːɡs
墓	*maːɡs
慔	*maːɡs
莫	*maːɡ
寞	*maːɡ
漠	*maːɡ
幕	*maːɡ
鏌	*maːɡ
瘼	*maːɡ
鄚	*maːɡ
瞙	*maːɡ
嗼	*maːɡ, *mraːɡ
塻	*maːɡ
貘	*mraːɡ
驀	*mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːɡs) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 土.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 墓

1. grave; tomb

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

墓

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. grave; graveyard

Readings

• Go-on: も (mo)
• Kan-on: ぼ (bo, Jōyō)
• Kun: はか (haka, 墓, Jōyō)
• Nanori: つか (tsuka)

Compounds

Compounds

• 墓(ぼ)碣(けつ) (boketsu): a tombstone, a headstone
• 墓(ぼ)誌(し)銘(めい) (boshimei): an extra inscription at the end of a tombstone inscription, such as a short poem
• 墓(ぼ)表(ひょう) (bohyō): the text on a tombstone, giving the deceased's name, dates of birth and death, and other details
• 墓(ぼ)地(ち) (bochi): a cemetery, a graveyard
• 支(し)石(せき)墓(ぼ) (shisekibo): a dolmen

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
墓
はか Grade: 5
kun’yomi

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time around 759 CE.

Ultimate derivation unknown. One possibility is that the final ka may be 処 (ka, suffix denoting place), as in the term 住み処 (sumika, “dwelling, home, abode”, literally “living place”).

Noun

墓(はか) • (haka) 

1. a grave, a tomb

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 墓(はか)穴(あな) (hakāna): an open grave, the hole where someone is buried
• 墓(はか)場(ば) (hakaba): a graveyard, a cemetery
• 墓(はか)掘(ほ)り (hakahori): a gravedigger
• 墓(はか)屋(や) (hakaya): a graveyard or cemetery caretaker

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
墓
ぼ Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 墓 (muoᴴ, “grave, tomb”). Compare modern Min Nan readings bō͘, bōng.

Noun

墓(ぼ) • (bo) 

1. a grave, a tomb

Usage notes

Seldom used in isolation. More commonly encountered in compounds.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 墓(ぼ)域(いき) (boiki): a graveyard, a cemetery
• 墓(ぼ)地(ち) (bochi): a graveyard, a cemetery
• 墓(ぼ)穴(けつ) (boketsu): an open grave, the hole where someone is buried

References

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

墓 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 墓 (mộ, mô, mồ)

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