Chinese Character Wiki

塋

yíng

grave

Grass 炏 covering a buried 土 casket 冖

Components
炏 meaning component

炏  Meaning component

yán

  

flame

冖 meaning component

冖  Meaning component

mì

  

cover

土 meaning component

土  Meaning component

tǔ

  

earth

Evolution

塋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

茔 (塋) 

yíng

grave, tomb, cemetery; a grave

Most common words with 塋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

坟茔

grave

茔

a grave

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5697th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

茔

Unicode

U+584B

Shuowen

“塋，墓也。从土，熒省聲。”


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