Memory phrase for the Kanji: 葬


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Meaning bury, funeral, interment

Pronunciation


hōmuru

Explanation

Top & bottom: plant 艹, middle: death 死 (Below the earth 一 are the bare bones 歹 of a sitting person 匕)

Mnemonic


 
Between the plants the dead are buried. (Or: Like a sunset 莫 of the dead 死 is the: funeral.)

Radicals

plant, grassShows two plants growing through the ground, and is a simple variation of 艸.
bare boneBones 歹 (vertebrae or rib) or variant of sitting person 夕,匕 under ground 一.
to go down, to setThe 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.
sitting personThe Radical sajinohi means "spoon". But due to its appearance is typically used as a "sitting person". In few cases however, it is understood as claws (i.e. of a bear).
two handsEven though the radical actually was developed from feet, it is here understood as two hands 屮 (with the fingers 山 upwards, simplified and combined).
Tip: Go to the radicals that are contained in this character and learn all the characters with this radical systematically!

 Vocabulary

葬る ほうむる  to bury, to inter, to entomb, to consign to oblivion, to shelve
葬式 そうしき  funeral

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