mái

to bury

A fox  burying something in the grass 

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

貍 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

a fox-like animal

Evolution

薶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薶 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
薶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mái

to bury, to stop up; dirty, filthy; old variant of [mái]

 

to make dirty; to soil