Memory phrase for the Kanji: 墓

墓

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Meaning grave, tomb

Pronunciation

BO
haka

Explanation

Top: sunset, disappear 莫 (The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 [= as long shadows] at sunset.), bottom: earth 土 [Watch-out: sunrise is: 旦 or

]

Mnemonic

Sinking among plants into the earth: into the grave.

Radicals

莫	to go down, to set	The plants 艹 are made by the sun 日 to be large 大 (= as long shadows) at sunset. - Please be aware that this very similar radical stands for the sunrise.
土	earth	ground, soil

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Vocabulary

墓所	はかしょ	graveyard
墓	はか	grave, tomb
墓地	ぼち	cemetery, graveyard
墓参り	はかまいり	visit to a grave
墓碑	ぼひ	gravestone, tombstone

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