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

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.rˤə

meaj

mái

bury


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+85B6

Shuowen

“薶,瘞也。从艸,貍聲。”


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