fén
grave
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 文 represents the sound. Simplified form of 墳.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 坟
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
grave | ||
grave | ||
to dig one's own grave | ||
graveyard | ||
ancestral tomb |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 6.4712% of movies
2231st most common character in movies
2370th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+575F |
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