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墓

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

grave

HSK 6 N1

Objects →Buildings

mù

ボ

はか

묘

Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 莫 represents the sound.

Components

土 earth+ 莫 nobody =

墓 grave

土 Meaning component

tǔ earth

soil, earth

莫 Phonetic component

mò nobody

do not, is not, can not

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

墓

Regular

Modern

Chinese

墓 [mù]

grave; tomb; mausoleum

Japanese

墓はか同音

noun grave; gravesite; tomb

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

私は彼の墓を立ち去り難かった。

I hesitated to leave his grave.

Japanese Names

墓はかざき

Hakazaki surname

墓はかもり

Hakamori unclassified name

CHINESE WORDS (57)

坟墓 [fénmù] #4,584

坟墓 [fénmù] #4,584

墓地 [mùdì] #5,409

墓碑 [mùbēi] #11,202

公墓 [gōngmù] #12,148

public cemetery

古墓 [gǔmù] #22,035

old tomb (archaeology)

盗墓 [dàomù] #18,881

盗墓 [dàomù] #18,881

墓穴 [mùxué] #15,422

墓葬 [mùzàng] #65,068

(archeology) grave

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JAPANESE WORDS (49)

⭐ 墓地 [ぼち] #11,855

墓場 [はかば] #12,604

⭐ 浅はか [あさはか] #14,038

⭐ 墓参り [はかまいり] #16,981

visit to a grave

⭐ 墓石 [ぼせき] #18,975

墓標 [ぼひょう] #22,482

墓穴を掘る [ぼけつをほる] #24,806

to dig one's own grave

墓所 [ぼしょ] #29,743

⭐ 墓穴 [ぼけつ] #30,906

墓前 [ぼぜん] #35,832

in front of a grave

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KOREAN WORDS (7)

public cemetery

graveyard; cemetery