漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
葬: interment, bury
Also: shelve
艹 carries the meaning · 死 and 廾 are drawn in
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 葬儀そうぎfuneral; funeral service
- 社葬しゃそうcompany funeral
- 葬式そうしき
- 埋葬まいそう
- 葬送そうそうattending a funeral procession
- 葬祭そうさいfunerals and ceremonial occasions
- 火葬かそうcremation
ほうむるhoumuru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 葬るほうむるto bury; to inter; to entomb
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)茻 grass + 死 dead person
Bury the dead 死 in the grass 茻. Top is now grass radical (艹), while bottom is simplified to 廾, hence graphically 艹 + 死 + 廾.
Source: Wiktionary, 葬 (rev. 92201546), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Grass (艹) + death (死) + hands (廾). The formal ceremony of "hands" placing a body beneath the grass—the solemn act of a burial.”
Connections
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zàng
Same form: 葬 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 葬 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 葬 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zàng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.