Chinese Character Wiki

埋

mái, mán

bury

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

Components
土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

里 sound component

里  Sound component

lǐ

  

village

Evolution

埋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

埋  

mái

bury, secrete, conceal; to bury

埋  

mán

to blame

Most common words with 埋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

埋

to bury

埋葬

to bury

埋怨

to complain

埋伏

to ambush

埋藏

to bury

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.rˤə

meaj

mái

bury


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 20.9515% of movies

1447th most common character in movies

1640th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+57CB

Shuowen

“薶，瘞也。从艸，貍聲。”


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