埋 — bury, be filled up, embedded

うめる埋 bury

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+57CB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1110 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #191 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

bury
be filled up
embedded

word

う u Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

埋(う) める umeru to bury 埋(う) まる umaru to be buried 埋(う) め込(こ) む umekomu to embed 埋(う) もれる umoreru to be buried

まい mai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

埋(まい) 葬(そう) maisou burial

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

つち土 earth #32

さと里 village #166

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#32 土 earth