葬 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Origin of the character

象形。地中のに人を埋めるさまを象る。「ほうむる」を意味する漢語{葬}を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

interment, bury, shelve

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウJHS
Kun (native)
  • ほうむ(る)HS
Nanori (used in names)
  • はふり
Other languages
  • 拼音zang4
  • 한글jang
  • Hán-ViệtTáng

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
12 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+846C

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹𢍈

Words using this kanji

  • 葬儀そうぎ死者を葬る儀式。funeral, funeral service
  • 葬式そうしき死者を葬る儀式。 死者を葬る儀式を執り行う。funeral
  • 葬送そうそう故人の遺体または遺骨を墓地までこと。また、それをこと。。attending a funeral procession, seeing off the deceased, burial of someone's remains, observing a burial
  • 葬祭そうさい葬儀と祖先などの祭祀。funerals and ceremonial occasions
  • 葬るほうむるほうむるを参照。to bury, to inter, to entomb, to cover up
  • 葬列そうれつ葬送の行列。funeral procession
  • 葬儀社そうぎしゃ葬儀に関する器具の販売や貸し出し、納棺や式場の手配など葬儀の世話を業とする者。葬儀屋。undertaker's office, funeral home, funeral parlor
  • 葬り去るほうむりさるto consign to oblivion
  • そう(そう)死者を葬ること。funeral
  • 葬礼そうれい死者を葬る儀式。funeral, mourning etiquette
  • 葬具そうぐ葬式に使われる道具。funeral accessories, funeral items, funeral paraphernalia
  • 葬りほうむりburial
  • 葬斂そうれん葬式。葬儀。burying (a corpse), entombing, interring, funeral
  • 葬儀式そうぎしきfuneral ceremony, wake
  • 葬送曲そうそうきょくfuneral march
  • 葬儀屋そうぎや葬儀に関する器具の販売や貸し出し、納棺や式場の手配など葬儀の世話を業とする者。葬儀社。funeral parlor (parlour), funeral home, undertaker's, undertaker
  • 葬儀場そうぎじょうfuneral home
  • 葬の列そうのれつfuneral procession
  • 葬送歌そうそうかdirge, elegy, threnody
  • 葬式鉄そうしきてつrailfans who gather at the decommissioning of a train or line

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(74 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-9
Four Corner
4444.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k9.15
Heisig
879
Nelson
4000