Meaning & readings
interment, bury, shelve
On’yomi ソウ
Kun’yomi ほうむ.る
Nanori はふり
Origin
This character combines grass (the top part, showing plants) with a component below that represents a coffin or burial. The visual idea is of plants or earth covering something that has been buried, which naturally connects to the meanings of interment and burial. Over time, the character became more stylized and less obviously picture-like, but the core image—of something hidden beneath plants or soil—carries the sense of laying someone to rest.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (葬).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 12
- Kangxi radical
- 140
- Formation type
- Pictographic or simple
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #754 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+0846C