zàng

to bury

Evolution

塟 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
塟 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
塟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
塟 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
Definitions

 

zàng

to bury

() 

zàng

old variant of [zàng]

Most common words with 塟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

葬礼

burial

埋葬

to bury

to inter

安葬

to bury (the dead)

墓葬

tomb

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 16.4664% of movies

1503rd most common character in movies

2060th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+585F

Shuowen

“葬,藏也。从死在茻中。一其中,所以薦之。《易》曰:‘古之葬者,厚衣之以薪。’”


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